PIP consultation on vouchers etc . has been shelved

Numan

Sir Stephen Timms has confirmed that the government will not be responding to the Green paper consultation started by the tories ie vouchers,receipts etc. See response to MP question below.

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-10-04/6515

Numan

Wendy ChamberlainLiberal DemocratNorth East Fife Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to respond to the consultation entitled Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper, which closed on 22 July 2024.

Answer

Sir Stephen TimmsLabourEast Ham Commons

Answered on

14 October 2024

The consultation on Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper ran for 12 weeks and closed on Monday 22 July.

There were over 16,000 responses to the consultation, which demonstrates the depth of feeling about the previous Government’s proposals. I can confirm that responses to the set of proposals on the reform of Personal Independence Payment were mixed and for some proposals consistently negative.

We do not intend to publish a response to the previous Government’s consultation. We will be considering our own plans for social security in due course and will fulfil our continued commitment to work with disabled people so that their views and voices are at the heart of all that we do.

Numan

https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/pip-vouchers-proposal-dead-%E2%80%93-at-least-for-now

Rosie_Scope

Thanks for sharing @Numan I hope some will feel at least a bit comforted that the proposals from the previous government have been shelved.

Fingers crossed we hear more about what's in store for benefits soon.

apples

wooo thanks for posting this @Numan i just hope they don’t take pip away for my or means test it

Ironside1990

I think this is a cause for celebration! Buy something nice,treat yourself!

After months of living in fear and uncertainty over our financial independence, this is fantastic news!

RTX1

Whoever thought up of the idea to punish the disabled in such a way needs removing completely from government! Thank you so much for the update this will bring comfort to tens of thousands if not more people, As its been shelved the chances of it coming back to an idea are almost zero, good riddance!.

Numan

Indeed this feels like a victory…..of course in a war we should never have been in…but a victory none the less. :-)

Ironside1990

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/923247#Comment_923247

The Tories knew they were on the way out. So I think this was a final FU to disabled people.

I'm not usually into shaudenfraude, but I hope Rishi Sunak and Mel Stride know about this. I bet they are devastated!

poppy123456

Thanks for sharing such good news. I'm another one that didn't think the vouchers would ever happen.

emc123

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/923245#Comment_923245

It's Shelved not Scrapped.

I think given our obvious trust levels there's No celebration until it's burned at the stake.

emc123

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/923250#Comment_923250

How does "Not Responding to it" mean they're not going to Implement it Or similar?

It's not even Scrapped only Shelved.

worried33

Thanks for this update, it remains to be seen what will happen, but that response I consider overall positive.

worried33

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/923329#Comment_923329

Ironically I dont think there was ever an intention to introduce vouchers. I think that was put there (successfully, as everyone in the disabled community was just focused on the vouchers) to distract from the other things in the consultation which were far more nasty than replacing cash with vouchers.

Catherine21

I do think it will become the main health benefit

Catherine21

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/923405#Comment_923405

I agree

Ironside1990

I see the MSM have picked this up now.