PIP final

The government have produced what seems to be their final response to the PIP assessment change from DLA.

The report states they received over 1100 responses from organisations or individuals, they have gone as far as grouping the individual replies into two groups, the one is where the respondent has been able to put the contact they made into their own words the second is where the respondent has used a template letter formulated by an organisation or someone on a forum, it is unclear what they constitute as a template letter it could be the same letter from just two individuals. They state that 900 were from individuals leaving 200 from organisations.

Why have they broadened the range of appliances that a person may use to include items not normally described for people with disabilities? IMO it is because if bought from a disability specialist store the same item can cost more and that item may be VAT free. Let's use their example of a person needing a food processor to complete a task what if they don't have one because they live in a small place and don't have the space to store or use the equipment as intended? Will the assessor be allowed to assume the person would be able to use one to complete the task just like they can with ESA, assume a person can use a wheelchair to cover more distance than they can walking even though by all other government criteria they are don't need a wheelchair or they would be allocated one.

Changing the wording on the bathing & grooming section to washing and bathing is, IMO, saying we do not believe the person has the intelligence to understand what bathing and grooming is.
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