DWP issues update over scrapping PIP cash payments and says 'can confirm'

DWP has been looking at feedback to a green paper suggesting cash payments for disabled claimants could be scrapped in favour of either a voucher system, catalogue system or even one-off grants.

Birmingham Live
Government plunging single mothers into deeper financial instability with new benefit overhauls, campaigners charge

Morning Star
DWP boss caught lying TWICE to lay cover for latest assault on disabled people

DWP boss Mel Stride has spun a web of lies about disability benefits PIP to lay cover for the Tories' rancid plans for them.

Canary
‘I’m terrified’: Disabled and mentally ill people share harrowing experiences of benefits system

Big Issue readers have shared their "disgust" about the proposed changes to the DWP disability benefits system and PIP.

Big Issue
Chronic UTI and EDS patients fear losing PIP if benefits change

The Royal College of GPs said changes to PIP are 'highly concerning' for patients with conditions that take longer to diagnose 

inews.co.uk
We'll end 'spiral of sickness' keeping people out of work, says Mel Stride

WorkWell, a programme connecting people with work support when they seek to be signed off sick, to be launched in 15 areas

The Telegraph
Swapping benefits for vouchers is just another way for the government to infantalise us

Swapping benefits for vouchers is just another way for the government to infantalise us - Parenting - operanewsapp

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Vouchers for disabled people? All aboard the 'hating us' bus for our next batshit destination!

This isn't about cutting PIP, argues Canary columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey, Vouchers for disabled people is about demonising us further.

Canary
DWP disability benefit cuts will impact 450,000 people – but very few will actually find paid work

Forecasts show that the DWP's disability benefit cuts will not have the intended results of pushing people into work.

The Big Issue
New benefits crackdown as disabled people may be offered vouchers instead of cash

Mel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is set to announce the new ‘green paper’ on Tuesday

The Independent