Budget announcements on health and disability benefit assessments

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From the rightsnet site today

Z2K: Digging into the Budget announcements on health and disability benefit assessments

New Blog from Z2K's Samuel Thomas:

The detail of the Budget announcement on health and disability benefit assessments has received surprisingly little attention.

Budget documents confirm that the government is bringing forward three measures: increasing the number of work capability reassessments, reducing the frequency of PIP reassessments, and increasing the number of face-to-face assessments. In total, these plans are expected to save the government just under £600 million by 2029/2030.

What will these measures mean for disabled people who rely on our social security system? And what do they tell us more broadly about this government’s approach to the thorny issue of health and disability benefit assessments?

More: Checks and balances? Digging into the Budget announcements on health and disability benefit assessments

https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69150