Ten leading charities have written to Liz Kendall urging her not to ‘condemn disabled people to a life of poverty’.
Leading anti-poverty, health and disability charities, including the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Mind and Disability Rights UK, have written to the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Liz Kendall, urging her to make dropping plans to restrict eligibility for incapacity benefits and scraping Personal Independence Payment reforms her first tasks in office.
The ten organisations are also calling for any future changes to PIP, to be done with disabled people at the centre - similar to the Scottish Government's approach to Adult and Child Disability Payment and the new Pension Age Disability Payment due to launch in October. The letter also highlights the ongoing legal challenge to the previous government’s consultation on the plans.
“It was a relief that the previous government ran out of time before the election to implement the plans and we were hopeful that a new government would not take them forward. But we have heard nothing to date that has put our minds at ease.”
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