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June 21, 2019

Motability Operations commits to reducing its capital reserves

Motability Operations, which provides some disabled people with a leased car in return for their disability benefit, has £2.5 billion of reserves.
January 18, 2019

PIP has cost up to £2 billion more than keeping DLA

The introduction of PIP has cost £4 billion more than estimated whilst failing disabled people, says Disability Rights UK.
November 8, 2017

Twice as many people in Northern Ireland losing their disability benefit compared to GB

In Northern Ireland, over a third of disabled people being assessed to transfer to Personal Independence Payments are being denied the benefit.
September 25, 2017

Personal Independence Payment assessments

Recently a paramedic carrying out Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments for Capita, on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions, was found guilty of misconduct by a professional sta
April 5, 2017

Charity highlights impact of move from DLA to PIP

A leading UK poverty charity ,Turn2us, is highlighting how the move from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment is leaving many people with a disability struggling to pay their basic living costs.
February 24, 2017

Inquiry into PIP and Motor Neurone Disease

There can be few things more devastating than to be diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND
July 14, 2015

Appeal on Personal Independent Payments consultation

This time last year we took the Department of Work and Pensions to a judicial review to decide if they properly consulted about cutting help for people who can only walk a few metres.
August 14, 2014

Iain Duncan Smith, the Bedroom Tax, and Disability Living Allowance

In an interview on LBC radio, Iain Duncan Smith displayed a startling ignorance of the social security benefits he has been administering, and cutting, for the last four years.
December 15, 2013

Raise your voices, because it really 'shouldn't be like this'

Jenny (not her real name) describes herself as “a medicated production”. In preparation for our meeting, she had recourse to a morphine patch. She explained that she always tried to “dress nicely and take care with my hair and make up when I go out or meet people.”
August 5, 2013

Submission to DWP consultation on PIP mobility criteria