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McVey invites ridicule as she dismisses her own PIP figures

30/01/2013 – 2:36 pm

A minister has refused to admit that her government has tightened eligibility for support for people with the highest mobility needs, even though her own department’s figures prove that it has.
Esther McVey, the Conservative minister for disabled people, was giving evidence to the Commons work and pensions committee for the first time since her ministerial [...]

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Government makes ‘significant changes’ to PIP assessment criteria

21/12/2012 – 10:00 am

The government has made “significant changes” to the criteria it will use to assess disabled people’s eligibility for the new personal independence payment (PIP), but early analysis of the alterations suggests key concerns remain.
The Department for Work and Pensions today published its final plans for how it will assess claimants of PIP, the replacement for [...]

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