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Will the new Personal Independence Payments (PIP) support society's most vulnerable?

08-Mar-13

Esther McVey, Minister for Disabled People
YES MP Esther McVey, the Minister for Disabled People, believes the Bill containing Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments amongst wider benefit reforms will prove important to adults with a disability. The minister comments: “I know that disabled...

Jane Young, from campaign group We Are Spartacus
NO Jane Young, of campaign group We Are Spartacus, judges the PIP system as unfair to the lives of disabled adults. In her ‘Emergency Stop’ report she writes: ‘1.8 million people of working age in the UK currently receive Disability Living Allowance (DLA),...

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