PIP / ESA and What benefits add up to (notes)
Please Read this :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/05/pip-new-disability-benefit-urgently-reviewed
Next read this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/05/stephen-duckworth-new-disability-benefit
And here's a few pointers :
outinthecold
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/05/pip-new-disability-benefit-urgently-reviewed
Next read this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/05/stephen-duckworth-new-disability-benefit
And here's a few pointers :
outinthecold
@EdScott7 -
ESA is a premium, maximum £34.
DLA care component is spent on care or surrendered to social services for a care package.
DLA mobility is spent on transport, a motability vehicle is a lease vehicle costing more than the allowance.
Or on a powerchair, costing as much as a car.
Or on a powerchair, costing as much as a car.
Housing benefit is paid to the landlord, and under the LHA rarely covers the rent.
Carer's Allowance is paid to the carer.
It may add up to a lot, but the disabled person has less to live on than an able bodied person on JSA after costs of disability, and all that money moves back into the economy.
That money has an accumulator value - it pays for taxes, NI and stimulates growth.
That money has an accumulator value - it pays for taxes, NI and stimulates growth.
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My concern is that perhaps Dr Duckworth hasn't heard about norms yet. Norms are like statistical expectations. They'll likely be based on the projections DWP has made, of how many people they expect to be claiming the different rates of PIP, compared to the numbers for DLA.
Norms are used 'like' targets. If either Atos or Capita assessors are found to be recommending too many claimants for certain rates, they will be told to reduce the number they allow through. Not targets, just statistical norms. They prevent claimants being treated as individuals, sometimes with very serious consequences.
It won't be long before Dr Duckworth finds out about norms. It also won't be long before he discovers that what he intends to do, and what DWP order him to do, are likely to be very, very different. No prizes for guessing who wins at that point!
Carrying out assessments for PIP, which result in people having their benefits taken away or reduced, will reflect badly on Capita because people FEEL rather than THINK, especially when they've been shafted. They'll know they've been assessed by Capita and the next thing they hear is they've lost benefit - and likely their car, too. Expecting people to be rational and not blame Capita is cloud cuckoo land, wishful thinking.
But I will shed no tears for Dr Duckworth and Capita; I will save those for the hundreds of thousands of claimants who find that because there's no consideration of the actual help they need they can no longer pay for support, or because 20 metres is thought to be an appropriate distance to do something useful, they lose their independent mobility. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/05/pip-new-disability-benefit-urgently-reviewed
Not very enabling, is it?
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