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Disability living allowance and personal independence payment do not foster independence, but rather dependence.

No 30: Disabled people’s independence: the underfunding and commodification of support

May 14, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Kirstein Rummery Social policy has always distinguished between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ in responses to need. When the post-war welfare settlement was decided, the battle lines against Beveridge’s 5 Evils of want, ignorance, squalor, […]

Personal independence payment, or PIP, has proved disastrous for mental health patients.

No 26: Personal Independence Payment – a fair deal for people with mental health problems?

April 16, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Richard Machin ‘U-turn’, ‘Fiasco’, ‘Chaos’ – Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has been back in the news at the start of 2018 and the headlines don’t make good reading for the government. Back in March […]