A consultation on reforming disability benefits will be published on Monday setting out a range of options
Rishi Sunak gives a speech on welfare reform, where he calls for an end to the “sick note culture” and warned against “over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life”must not cut support with mental health conditions and better-trained assessors must be brought in to stop incorrect decisions, a leading charity has said.
Louise Rubin head of policy and campaigns at disability charity Scope said the charity was not against reform of the benefit but that she was “pretty horrified” by language used by Mr Sunak – who said he wanted to crack down on what he said was a “sicknote culture”., she criticised the fact the PIP reforms had been “bundled together and conflated with issues relating to sick notes and unemployment benefits”.
“We have been calling for reform of PIP. Whilst starting point seems to be primarily cost cutting, ours is about all of the horror stories that we hear from disabled people day in and day out,” she added. “There’s been quite a lot of talk about mental health problems being almost too easy to claim PIP,” she said.
Ms Rubin criticised the suggestion that PIP might not be given in the form of cash payments and instead paid through services, such as adjustments in the home, arguing claimants should be able to spend money on what they need.
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