Personal Independence Payments (PIP) have lurched even further into chaos with over quarter of a million people waiting months on end for a decision on the new benefit.
PIP is Iain Duncan Smith’s replacement for Disability Living Allowance, the benefit paid to many disabled people to meet costs associated with mobility or care. The new system launched for new claims in April last year and means sick and disabled people will be forced to attend demeaning and stressful assessments carried out by the notorious Atos and bungling Capita. The purpose of these assessments is to strip benefits from a fifth of disabled people.
335,000 people have claimed the new benefit since it began last year, but appallingly only just over 80,000 have had a decision made on their claim. Some people have been waiting for months. In August last year 95,500 people had claimed Personal Independence Payments meaning that the…
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