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If PIP won’t change unless you’re a new claimant, will reassessments be treated as old or new claimants?

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ForMyBenefit · 27/06/2025 14:03

I’m a little bit concerned that this could be a back door into enforcing the original plan to cut PIP for everybody.

it sounds all well and good to say a person who claims in the future will be under the new stricter regime, but what about those who only had an award for a year or two and have to reapply at the end of it. Do they count as a new claimant under the new rules?

I’m wondering if anybody’s even thought to ask.

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Greenartywitch · 27/06/2025 14:40

This is why Starmer is again trying to lie its way out of avoiding a defeat.

When you are reassessed you need to submit a new claim.

So existing PIP recipients would be affected by the changes.

I hope MPs see through this smokescreen.

TheAutumnCrow · 27/06/2025 14:30

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

I doubt Kendall and Starmer know. They continue to muddle UC and PIP and I think now that it’s deliberate.

There are also huge implications around the Equality Act 2010, the protected characteristics of sex, age and race, and indirect discrimination (see eg disproportionate negative effects on: women; older women; and people with sickle cell disease).

creekyjohn · 27/06/2025 14:23

I’m quite sure it’s bullshit and by the time existing claimants are reassessed post 2026 they will absolutely be subject to the same conditions.

Yogabearmous · 27/06/2025 14:04

Who knows? The government will say something else tomorrow and it will change again .