PIP/ESA Petition

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Petition Don’t merge the assessments for PIP and ESA

In a speech on 5/3/19, Work & Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd announced plans to merge assessments for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment & Support Allowance (ESA) from 2021. Seeing as PIP & ESA are different benefits with different purposes, we feel this would be extremely dangerous.

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For some background :

https://www.carersuk.org/forum/support-and-advice/carer-disability-benefits/pip-assessments-sanctions-guardian-private-eye-other-articles-30710?hilit=pip

Needless to add , Disability Rights UK are in the forefront of the campaign.