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AROUND 10,000 people on disability benefits will receive higher payments, ministers announced yesterday after finally rewriting their rules in line with judges’ orders.
The personal independence payment (PIP) claimants will receive any extra £70 to £90 a week, backdated to an Upper Tribunal judgement last March.
Judges ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) must base decisions about claimants on the level of harm that could come to them when carrying out tasks unsupervised, rather than likelihood of harm.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
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
