Both assessments have long been criticised by disability rights campaigners as difficult and inconsistent processes.
13-Week Transition Period: To help during the move, the DWP will continue to pay Personal Independence Payment (PIP), ...
The average processing time for new Pension Age Disability Payment claims is eight working days.
A charity has warned any cuts to the Personal Independence Payment (Pip) would leave disabled people homeless and unable to ...
Checks on millions of claimants for sickness benefits have become more lax under Labour, new figures obtained by The ...
The Scottish Conservatives said the SNP’s ‘soft-touch benefits regime fails to tackle unnecessary or fraudulent claims’.
LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - Britain's government wants to tame its ballooning bill for supporting people with disabilities and long-term health conditions which, despite the cost, leaves many ...
The UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has unveiled new rules for welfare benefit claimants. Under the government’s back to work plan, £2.5 billion of funding is to be allocated to employment support schemes ...
The UK Labour government is putting forward proposals that will see long-term sick benefits claimants forced to look for work as a condition for receiving sickness payments. Another proposal being ...