Despite rumours that the government would scrap the benefit altogether, the work and pensions secretary has said PIP is here to stay, but it will be harder to qualify for.
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The situation is already extremely harsh for disabled people (including people with MH diagnoses) and these changes are not in a positive direction. Even people with profound lifelong incurable disabilities have to constantly prove that they deserve the pittance the government gives them to survive.
Tbh the govt may as well say they aren't interested in trying to support disabled people to live independent lives any more, and go back to warehousing them like the old days. Either that or they'll institute something MAID style to exterminate the financially non-viable.
I know assisted dying is extremely important and emotive to people in our community, but this could well profoundly affect other groups of people who are absolutely not suicidal and who want to live but are victims of these fucked neoliberal policies.