Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing unnecessary PIP reassessments

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people with lifelong conditions are being put through “pointless” benefit reassessments, contrary to official guidance. My exclusive in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

URGENT PIP UPDATE! Thread 1 of 2. Read if you or someone you know is affected! Starmer says there are NO cuts to PIP. But there are 'reassessments'. So the same, you get less money. 'Reassessments' have no medical interview. It's random. And unfair! My charity has overturned 43 cases this year..

Not only pointless pip reviews, also pointless continuing healthcare reviews. These reviews result in different organisations collecting same information and not using it. That is unsafe systems, safeguarding failures, fragmentation, institutional discrimination www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today @z2ktrust.bsky.social has published new research on PIP reassessments, covered by @francesryan.bsky.social in @theguardian.com, which sets out out why the system is failing disabled people and the public purse. 🧵

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... These PIP assessments are to remind disabled people that you are never safe, always have to both tug the forelock and drag your disability front and centre. You are never allowed to psychologically move on to what you can do. The whole emphasis is on your failure

Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing ‘unnecessary’ Pip reassessments ‘Pointless’ reviews are wasting public money and ‘significantly harming’ the mental health of claimants, charity says www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My assumption is that this is happening because the company that does the reassessments wants the make more money. A friend of mine with stage 4 prostate cancer was reassessed recently and asked, "Are you going to die in 12 months?" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing ‘unnecessary’ Pip reassessments www.theguardian.com/politics/202... > Part of the ruling class war against the trade unions, the pensioners, the poor, the sick and the disabled! - RAB

Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing ‘unnecessary’ Pip reassessments www.theguardian.com/politics/202... does starmers labour remind you of any UK party ! #starmerout #bluelabour #pip

SHAMEFUL If only they used their efforts to weed out contract corruption and political donations instead- and tax avoidance etc- WAY more ££ than money recovered by harassing the less well off and the disabled. I despair at this shit govt. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So true. Blind from birth people don't suddenly see. People who lost their legs don't grow new ones. Spinal cords don't repair themselves. Yet you get frequent demands to PROVE that. - Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing ‘unnecessary’ Pip reassessments www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

PIP reassessments are cruelty personified inflicted on some of the most vulnerable in society when they are not justified. They make money for the already rich companies who do them. Farmed out cruelty.

Will disabled people ever be treated equitably? Disabled ppl with chronic conditions have been treated appallingly by successive governments by #ableist laws and legislation. #Ableism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...