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SCOTS with disabilities face a “deficit of dignity” under the jiggery-pokery of Britain’s benefit system, an MSP warned yesterday.
The chair of Holyrood’s welfare reform committee urged ordinary people to “shine a light” on the coalition’s latest welfare wheeze by giving evidence to his panel.
Labour’s Michael McMahon said he wanted to hear first-hand experiences of claiming the Con-Dems’ new “personal independence payment” (PIP) — launched in 2011 after axing the longstanding disability living allowance.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
The government’s retreat on PIP still leaves 150,000 new universal credit claimants facing halved benefits from April 2026, creating a discriminatory two-tier welfare system that campaigners must continue fighting, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY
