What are your thoughts on the new DLA replacement

justinbarrow

From next year the government is replacing all DLA components with a new benefit called P.I.P Personal Independence Payment.

If you don't claim this then all current D.L.A payments will end or be stopped.

More Info is here via these links....

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/policy/disability/personal-independence-payment/

https://www.gov.uk/personal-independence-payment

What are your general thoughts - Do you think the criteria will be much tougher - and are you worried about this new change in Disability Payments and do you think its fair?

From what is being planed Atos Healthcare will be the company responsible for the new assessments for Personal Independence Payment.

barbara12

Hi Justine
All I know is that it has got a lot of genuine people very worried and stressed, and stress is not good,I honestly have not really looked into it, but I just hope they target the right ones...we shall see

Loulou11

I've just read up about the P.I.P and find it very worrying if the ESA is anything to go by. They don't say what the criteria are, with ESA they found me fit for work, when my employers medically retired me and I work as a civil servant.

So although whist I worked for the government I received DLA are they now going to tell me me disability does not fit the criteria and stop this essential finance??

tkachev

Hope this proves useful

http://www.cpag.org.uk/sites/default/files/CPAG-PIP-factsheet-Aug-12_0.pdf

Personally I don't think I will get the mobility part of PIP as I currently do with DLA. It certainly seems a lot tougher. I feel sorry for those who have to claim PIP in the early days as they will be the guinea pigs.

Elizabeth

Airwave!

I have no doubt that the bar will be 'raised' to disallow many of the present claimants and in my case my freedom to travel will be curtailed. I am not looking forward to a line of questions designed to reduce the number of claimants, as with any interview, ask the right questions and you get the right answer.

On the other side, the number and type of claimants may need to be reduced.

One last comment- if all the firms in the UK paid revenue tax as it was intended they pay then the UK could afford many times over its expenditure.

tkachev

The mobility component only has 2 questions and you have to score between 8 and 12 points between both. If you can move unaided upto 50 metres you get 10 points but if you use an aid other than a wheelchair or motorised vehicle and can manage between 50-200 metres you only get 4 points. I find that a bit odd.

Elizabeth