Plans to change the Personal Independence Payment into a voucher system appear to have been scrapped
The much-derided reforms to disability benefits at the Department for Work and Pensions , which were floated by the previous Conservative government and would have seen cash payments turned into vouchers, appear to have been dumped in a Whitehall bin.
In the years following the pandemic, the number of PIP claimants has jumped by a quarter to 3.5 million with a large increase in claims for mental health issues. Responding to questions from MPs over when the new Labour government would publish a response to the consultation held on the Tory proposals, disability minister Sir Stephen Timms said: “We do not intend to publish a response to the previous Government’s consultation.
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