"Additional Costs Disability Payment"

Wibbles

It appears that PIP may be disposed of and replaced by a new "Additional Costs Disability Payment" - if the government gets its way….

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dwp-pip-personal-independence-payment-latest-changes-b2699160.html

The rates of payment would be higher than PIP but, yet again - lesser numbers of claimants…

How and When this transfer would take place is unknown - but I can see no way of transferring 3 million to it overnight - so how would the "increases" be fairly paid ?

Girl_No1

I've never heard of this Commission. Are they well-known, trusted and influencial within our community?

Based on that article, they sound like a Tufton Street "think-tank" to me.

Wibbles

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1017692#Comment_1017692

I have absolutely no idea who they are...

Wibbles

I can just about understand how 3 million were transferred from DLA to PIP - With the payments exactly the same - but how would they even start to transfer 2 million (or however many are left) from a lower payment to a higher payment ?

Do they reduce the max payment to the same as enhanced PIP is now - or do they somehow increase EVERYBODY receiving PIP to the same as Additional Cost Disability Payment so everybody entitled receives the same - it would take years/decades to transfer everyone to ACDP as it took years/decades to transfer everyone from DLA to PIP (Still not finished yet)

Wibbles

The commission has finished it's consultation and will publish it's report next month - with it's final proposal the following month !

https://www.commissiononsocialsecurity.org.uk/2025consultationonacdp

egister

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/133058/additional-costs-disability-payment

Technically, virtualization is not very difficult to implement.

Yadnad

Start with all new claims and those claims coming up for review. By definition PIP at the most has a 10 max lifespan. So if it takes 10 years then that must be manageable.