Are You 'Anxious &/Or Depressed Or Maybe Have Acne' ?

[Khandro]

Britons with acne, constipation and those who abused alcohol and drugs are claiming almost £10,000-a-year each in disability benefits from a welfare system that experts warn is no longer fit for purpose.

The cost of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is set to rise from £15bn before the pandemic to £37bn in real terms by the end of the decade, while the overall cost of sickness and disability benefits is on course to climb to £100bn.

PIP provides cash payments for those with extra care or mobility needs, allowing people to spend it on everything from taxis to mobility scooters and cars. Roughly 1.3m people are eligible for the maximum of £9,500 a year to help them cope with a “main disabling condition” that ranges from drug abuse to obesity to long Covid.

Claims linked to some form of anxiety and depression account for one of the biggest sub-category of PIP, with over 800,000 payments now supporting the anxious and depressed.

Today's Telegraph.

 

[Khandro]

Benefits claimants can still get subsidised BMWs despite welfare cuts

Certain people eligible for disability payments can continue to access the controversial Motability scheme

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[DDIL]

//No one died as a result of "austerity" they died as a result of their own bad choices. No one is poor in this country, we are one of the most generous nations in the world for benefits. That's why the channel is full of aliens trying to get here. It's what they choose to do with the more than generous hand outs they get. No one is starving unless they choose to be because they have other priorities. End of.//

Then why are you getting your knickers in a twist over the removal of the WFA for all but those on pension credit? Are you saying it should be removed from everyone?

 

[newmodarmy]

Maybe because if the Tories had removed WFA in this way the left, including you, gulliver,  etc would have up in arms about it... typical tories attacking the poorest?

[davebro3]

Motability should be scrapped. Any (genuine) claimants getting PIP should use the cash to fund their mobility requirements as necessary in the open market.

[DDIL]

really MOD - i always laugh when I am called a lefty by TTT and now I will laugh at being called a lefty by you!