an article by Peter Alldridge (Queen Mary University of London, England) published in Journal of Law and Society Volume 46 Issue 3 (September 2019)
Abstract
The Welfare Reform Act 2012 introduced Personal Independence Payments (PIPs), and in particular the enhanced‐rate mobility component (ERMC), with its twenty‐metre test to replace the more flexible fifty‐metre test for the higher‐rate mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
The government objective was to reduce the number of recipients of the benefits, which carry eligibility to the Motability scheme.
Rather than modify DLA so as to cure its perceived faults, the government decided to ignore the past and start afresh.
The article examines the implementation of PIP, including the treatment of the application of the author, and shows that the norms according to which DWP operates the benefit, are radically at variance with those in the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013.
These developments have been central to the creation of a ‘hostile environment’ for people with disabilities.
Full text (PDF 28pp) explains most, if not all, the problems with PIP and the extensive footnotes provide lots of additional information.
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Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
UK Benefits System Fails Mentally Ill Claimants ‘Disproportionately’ By Refusing Benefits
an article by Adam Bloodworth (Freelance News Editor) for Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info
The UK benefits system’s Disability Living Allowance (DLA) has been designed to support people living with disabilities – but handouts may be unfairly benefiting claimants with physical injuries over those with mental illnesses.
According to new figures released from government data, claimants receiving benefits with a psychiatric condition are 2.4 times more likely to lose their disability living allowance than people with physical conditions.
The alarming figures have been unearthed by studying claimants that switched from receiving DLA payments to receiving personal independence payments, known as ‘PIP’ payments.
The findings were extracted from a data set of 237,000 people who switched from DLA to PIP payments between April 2013 and October 2016, and paint an alarming picture of benefits in Britain.
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The UK benefits system’s Disability Living Allowance (DLA) has been designed to support people living with disabilities – but handouts may be unfairly benefiting claimants with physical injuries over those with mental illnesses.
According to new figures released from government data, claimants receiving benefits with a psychiatric condition are 2.4 times more likely to lose their disability living allowance than people with physical conditions.
The alarming figures have been unearthed by studying claimants that switched from receiving DLA payments to receiving personal independence payments, known as ‘PIP’ payments.
The findings were extracted from a data set of 237,000 people who switched from DLA to PIP payments between April 2013 and October 2016, and paint an alarming picture of benefits in Britain.
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Tuesday, 5 December 2017
‘I have lost hope’: the people with mental health problems who are being stripped of their benefits
an article by Daniel Lavelle published in the Guardian
Personal Independence Payments – the points-based system for disability claims – only works for people with physical disabilities, say campaigners. We meet some of those who feel they have slipped through the net
Kloey Clarke at home in Devizes, with her son Seth.
Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian
Kloey Clarke, 28, from Devizes in Wiltshire, has had severe anxiety and type II bipolar disorder for six years. “I’m scared to leave the house,” says Clarke, who does not feel emotionally or physically stable enough to hold down a job and relies on her husband for care and support. “I have a constant fear of dying. I can’t socialise and I can’t communicate outside [the house].” For four years, Clarke depended on a Disability Living Allowance (DLA). The DLA was replaced by Personal Independence Payments (PIPs) in 2012 – and phased in from 2013 – but she was receiving them for less than a year before she was reassessed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and told she no longer qualified.
Clarke believes that the assessment for PIP is aimed at people with physical disabilities and does not account for mental illness. “I was asked if I could walk 200 metres unaided. No, I don’t need a stick or an aid, but I do need my husband or someone with me. Can I talk to people face to face? I talk to my family when they visit, but can I speak to strangers? No.”
She has had panic attacks as a consequence of losing her benefits, she says, and her family is now struggling financially. They have had to visit food banks twice since being rejected for PIP, but Clarke’s pride has stopped her from going more frequently. “I just find it so degrading. I don’t feel as if I should be there. I feel that, if I just had what I deserve, then I wouldn’t need to be in that place; I wouldn’t need to take food from, say, homeless people.”
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Personal Independence Payments – the points-based system for disability claims – only works for people with physical disabilities, say campaigners. We meet some of those who feel they have slipped through the net
Kloey Clarke at home in Devizes, with her son Seth.
Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian
Kloey Clarke, 28, from Devizes in Wiltshire, has had severe anxiety and type II bipolar disorder for six years. “I’m scared to leave the house,” says Clarke, who does not feel emotionally or physically stable enough to hold down a job and relies on her husband for care and support. “I have a constant fear of dying. I can’t socialise and I can’t communicate outside [the house].” For four years, Clarke depended on a Disability Living Allowance (DLA). The DLA was replaced by Personal Independence Payments (PIPs) in 2012 – and phased in from 2013 – but she was receiving them for less than a year before she was reassessed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and told she no longer qualified.
Clarke believes that the assessment for PIP is aimed at people with physical disabilities and does not account for mental illness. “I was asked if I could walk 200 metres unaided. No, I don’t need a stick or an aid, but I do need my husband or someone with me. Can I talk to people face to face? I talk to my family when they visit, but can I speak to strangers? No.”
She has had panic attacks as a consequence of losing her benefits, she says, and her family is now struggling financially. They have had to visit food banks twice since being rejected for PIP, but Clarke’s pride has stopped her from going more frequently. “I just find it so degrading. I don’t feel as if I should be there. I feel that, if I just had what I deserve, then I wouldn’t need to be in that place; I wouldn’t need to take food from, say, homeless people.”
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Friday, 10 July 2015
Personal Independence Payments, welfare reform and the shrinking disability category
an article by Alan Roulstone (University of Leeds, UK) published in Disability & Society Volume 30 Issue 5 (2015)
Abstract
The question of who counts and how we construct just who can ‘be disabled’ is central to our concerns in disability studies. As Stone makes clear, disability is exactly what a state deems it to be; the very malleable nature of the category has been exploited to widen or more commonly to narrow just who counts as disabled.
This article will apply and adapt Stone’s thesis to current plans to revise the Personal Independence Payment extra costs benefit. Using official and disabled people’s narratives, the article will make clear the force with which new definitions of disability are being put forward.
This process arguably risks doing state violence to a number of disabled people. These reforms have also used the language of independence in a way that fundamentally distorts the origins and potential of the term in an enabling society.
Abstract
The question of who counts and how we construct just who can ‘be disabled’ is central to our concerns in disability studies. As Stone makes clear, disability is exactly what a state deems it to be; the very malleable nature of the category has been exploited to widen or more commonly to narrow just who counts as disabled.
This article will apply and adapt Stone’s thesis to current plans to revise the Personal Independence Payment extra costs benefit. Using official and disabled people’s narratives, the article will make clear the force with which new definitions of disability are being put forward.
This process arguably risks doing state violence to a number of disabled people. These reforms have also used the language of independence in a way that fundamentally distorts the origins and potential of the term in an enabling society.
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
New benefit “better reflects today’s understanding of disability” says McVey
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) extends across the country from today [10 June 2013] and will better reflect today’s understanding of disability.
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Hazel’s comment:
It certainly doesn’t reflect my understanding of disability.
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Hazel’s comment:
It certainly doesn’t reflect my understanding of disability.
Monday, 21 January 2013
Touchbase January 2013
I would like to bring you information from this DWP publication "for advisers, intermediaries and other professionals".
I really would but …
It is produced as PDF only (not unusual in this day and age) with either white on violet or violet on white except for the first half page, and is set out as A4 landscape.
Sorry folks, the colour scheme “does my head in” and the format makes it hard to read on screen.
It covers:
I really would but …
It is produced as PDF only (not unusual in this day and age) with either white on violet or violet on white except for the first half page, and is set out as A4 landscape.
Sorry folks, the colour scheme “does my head in” and the format makes it hard to read on screen.
It covers:
- Personal Independence Payment
An update on implementation - Universal Jobmatch
How the new service is helping jobseekers and employers - International Day of Disabled People
New projects aim to encourage positive attitudes towards disabled people - Carer’s Allowance Unit Open Day
Carer’s groups attended an event in Preston - Other news in brief
A round-up of other news
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Personal Independence Payment
From 8 April 2013 the government is introducing a new benefit called Personal Independence Payment (PIP) to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for eligible working age people aged 16 to 64.
The government is committed to supporting disabled people to lead independent and active lives. It recognises that disabled people can face additional challenges to leading independent lives and is committed to maintaining an extra-cost, non-means-tested disability benefit to support disabled people.
What the change means
When will PIP be introduced
Background to Reform
Frequently asked questions
Consultations
More information
All the above and more here
The government is committed to supporting disabled people to lead independent and active lives. It recognises that disabled people can face additional challenges to leading independent lives and is committed to maintaining an extra-cost, non-means-tested disability benefit to support disabled people.
What the change means
When will PIP be introduced
Background to Reform
Frequently asked questions
Consultations
More information
All the above and more here
Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance claimants in the older population: is there a difference in their economic circumstances?
an article by Ruth Hancock, Marcello Morciano and Stephen Pudney (affiliation(s) not provided) published in Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Volume 20 Number 2 (June 2012)
Abstract
The UK Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a non-means-tested cash benefit claimable only before age 65, although receipt can continue beyond 65. The similar Attendance Allowance (AA) can be claimed only from age 65 and in some cases is worth less than DLA.
DLA is being replaced by Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which, like DLA, will have advantages over AA. These advantages are sometimes justified on grounds that DLA recipients have longer histories of disability and consequently lower incomes.
Using detailed survey data we find no evidence of higher levels of income deprivation among older DLA than AA recipients.
Abstract
The UK Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a non-means-tested cash benefit claimable only before age 65, although receipt can continue beyond 65. The similar Attendance Allowance (AA) can be claimed only from age 65 and in some cases is worth less than DLA.
DLA is being replaced by Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which, like DLA, will have advantages over AA. These advantages are sometimes justified on grounds that DLA recipients have longer histories of disability and consequently lower incomes.
Using detailed survey data we find no evidence of higher levels of income deprivation among older DLA than AA recipients.
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