Remember when the Tories introduced Personal Independence Payment to replace Disability Living Allowance for disabled people, back in 2013 or thereabouts?

They admitted that some people would lose out… but unless my memory is failing me, I seem to recall they said more people would gain.

In fact, the opposite has happened.

Since the benefit was rolled out, more than 351,000 disabled people have lost their benefit payments altogether.

Did even a single member of the Tory/Liberal Democrat government of the day stop to check what happened to them?

A further 306,000 lost money, receiving PIP at a lower rate.

Tories love pushing people into poverty and making them struggle.

Then there were 200,000 people who neither benefited nor lost out; their award was unchanged.

Finally, 556,000 people actually saw the benefit increase that the Tories promised.

Lucky them.

But 556,000 is nothing like as many as the 850,000 who either lost out or whose benefit stayed the same.

Everybody knows the new system is inferior.

PIP assessments are overruled in around 75 per cent of appeals – but very few claimants appeal because the process has been deliberately complicated by the Tories.

It’s as though they don’t want anyone to get it – don’t you think?

The Disability Benefits Consortium, which represents more than 100 pressure groups, wants the government to commission research into the number of assessments that are actually false – not just the number found to be false by a tribunal.

Then it wants the government to step up efforts to get assessments right.

But there’s a serious flaw in the organisation’s thinking:

The Tory government created PIP; it was designed to fail disabled people.

As far as the Conservatives are concerned, it is working perfectly.

And there’s nothing anybody can do to change it for years to come, because 14 million people obligingly voted these creatures of hate back into office.

So my advice to you is, if you have a disabled relative or friend, and they fall foul of the Tory benefit deprivation scam, find someone who voted Tory…

And ask them why they wanted to hurt innocent people so badly.

Source: 650,000 PIP disability benefit claimants have money cut by DWP – Bristol Live

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