London, 07/03/2017. Today, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) held a peaceful demonstration in Parliament Square to protest against the Conservative Government recent change to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) regulations. The demonstration started around 1 pm with a rally at Old Palace Yard. Then, protesters marched to Parliament Square where they created a peaceful roadblock which ended around 3pm. From the organisers Facebook event page: <<Disability campaigners across the...
more »London, 07/03/2017. Today, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) held a peaceful demonstration in Parliament Square to protest against the Conservative Government recent change to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) regulations. The demonstration started around 1 pm with a rally at Old Palace Yard. Then, protesters marched to Parliament Square where they created a peaceful roadblock which ended around 3pm. From the organisers Facebook event page: <<Disability campaigners across the country, have reacted angrily to the latest underhand cuts to Personal Independence Payment regulations, announced by Penny Mordaunt, the Minister of Disability, Work and Health, which will lead to the ineligibility of a further 160,000 disabled claimants, mainly with mental health conditions. The recent change in the PIP regulations is only the latest of a long series of attacks against Disabled People over the years by the DWP. It has become increasingly obvious that disability benefit entitlement is no longer based on need, but on how much the government is prepared to pay. Disability tests, whether for ESA or PIP, are fine tuned to give the results the government expect in terms of expenditure, which determines the number of people entitled to disability benefits […]>>.
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