"Additional Costs Disability Payment"

Wibbles
Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,566 Championing
edited April 16 in Current affairs

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 ?

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  • Girl_No1
    Girl_No1 Online Community Member Posts: 314 Pioneering

    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
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,566 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1017692#Comment_1017692

    I have absolutely no idea who they are...

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,566 Championing

    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
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,566 Championing

    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
    egister Posts: 932 Pioneering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/133058/additional-costs-disability-payment

    Technically, virtualization is not very difficult to implement.

  • Yadnad
    Yadnad Posts: 2,877 Championing

    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.

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