Daily Archives: 06/11/2011

New assessment ‘repeats mistakes of fitness for work test’

Trials of the assessment for the benefit that will replace disability living allowance (DLA) show the test is worryingly similar to the government’s discredited “fitness for work” assessment, say campaigners.
The government has been trialling questions for the test it plans to introduce for its new personal independence payment (PIP).
But disabled activist Linda Burnip, who has [...]

Disabled peer challenges minister over involvement of disabled people

A disabled peer has challenged a minister over whether she is taking account of the views of disabled people in developing new policies.
Baroness [Jane] Campbell told Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people, that there had been a “great deal of rhetoric” from the government on how it was listening to disabled people and their [...]