PIP mention in autumn budget 2021

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apple85

So it sounds like very short term pip awards are now a possibility 

To me (and those in the know please correct me if I’m wrong) this sounds like opening the door to further/more regular stressful assessment periods for the disabled - equalling yet another middle finger by the delightful tories

i wish that an official diagnosis (with paperwork) would be enough for these people - the dwp ignoring the facts and trying to say many aren’t actually disabled is getting a tad old

apple85

I appreciate what you are trying to say woodbine - the snipit that I attached from the budget document I was referring to how the disabled in the uk either get nothing from a budget best case or their lives made more difficult 

you are referring to working families when talking about positive change - I’m not denying that some working parents do have disabilities but a good chunk of the disabled have no partner/children and are unable to work no fault of their own and there is nothing in this budget that could be perceived as positive for that specific group of people.

the budget doc is over 200 pages long so Sunak would of never been able to cover it all and common sense wise he picked the ‘positive’ parts to highlight in his speech and leave the not so pleasant pieces in the long doc that next to no one will read through

reading through the paragraph I posted these sound like the first 2 changes put forward from the green paper doc suggesting more to come (though that’s off topic and theory for now) - I think all the budget votes happen in the next fortnight


point that I was trying to make was that if this change happened it would lead to more assessments for the disabled and more stress/anxiety when the dwp know very well the ill effects on disabled claimants mental health these constant assessments have