DWP to probe how claimants spend PIP

I this tonight on the web. There is no end of attacks by Labour on the sick and disabled.

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants are set to be probed about how they spend the benefit. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed a new government survey will be carried out after they announced plans to cut social welfare expenditure.

Labour ministers have clarified PIP is not intended as an income replacement but is provided to assist with additional costs resulting from a disability or long-term physical or mental health condition. PIP can be received regardless of income or savings, and it is tax-free and exempt from the benefit cap.

Onyx123 wrote:

I this tonight on the web. There is no end of attacks by Labour on the sick and disabled. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants are set to be probed about how they spend the benefit. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed a new government survey will be carried out after they announced plans to cut social welfare expenditure. Labour ministers have clarified PIP is not intended as an income replacement but is provided to assist with additional costs resulting from a disability or long-term physical or mental health condition. PIP can be received regardless of income or savings, and it is tax-free and exempt from the benefit cap.

Aside from the media spin, you can see from this easy read version of this part of consultation where this is headed. This is from .Gov website

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6...naire-accessible.pdf

These questions look remarkably similar to those in the consultation document the Conservative party issued last year, which so many of us completed online.