'The government is aware of the mental anguish our threadbare welfare system causes'
People living with disability and long-term sickness could lose out on more than £5,600 per year of government financial assistance, under proposals laid out following a fortnight of attacks on Personal Independence Payments . Disability rights advocates have criticised the plan, calling the government "obsessed with austerity, sanctions and conditionality".
The reason for the increase in political rhetoric around the help the state gives to 3.3 million disabled and sick people in the UK is the spiralling benefit bill faced by the government, with the number of people living with a PIP-eligible disability ballooning in the years following the pandemic. Other alternatives to the just over £100 per week that disabled people get through PIP proposed by the DWP include: an expenses-style receipt system where disabled people can claim the cost of equipment back from the government, and one-off grants to help people purchase home adaptations or expensive equipment.
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