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PIP consultation: Last set of questions

Here are the last questions in the Personal Independence Payments consultation being undertaken by the government. You can answer some or all the questions and I’m very happy to gather responses and send them off as one group input. Chapter…

PIP Consultation penultimate set of questions

Here’s your chance to influence a change to our disability benefits. Don’t mis out: let me know what’s important to you and I’ll put it in a composite response. Chapter 3 – Consultation questions Q18. PIP provides a contribution towards extra costs.…

News and Information from HMRC

Why now is a great time to submit tax returns Tax returns for 2023 to 2024 can be submitted any time ahead of the January deadline. We strongly encourage our customers and tax agents to submit tax returns well before…

More on PIP: DWP in the firing line.

Many people with health conditions (long-term physical or mental health or learning disabilities) may have fallen foul of the DWP benefits system over the last 10 years.   It can be hugely demeaning, distressing and add new mental health illness or…

More PIP

Your thoughts on the PIP consultation are still valuable.  Don’t forget that the same principles are likely to apply for anyone being transferred from DLA over coming years. The second set of questions are: Chapter 2 – Consultation questions Q9.…

So much talent.

At a charity conference last week.   What a mass of talent in the room: a former rugby player and singer, a defence specialist, a company law consultant, a member of a benefits tribunal, a tax specialist.   And those were only…

PIP: a bit of a rant!

Policy-makers want to reduce the costs of this benefit which supports people with disabilities. Firstly, PIP has nothing to do with work.  It doesn’t matter if those getting the benefit are working or not.  PIP is about the extra costs…

Ticket offices saved?

Talking on BBC Radio 5 Live last week about Labour’s plan to re-nationalise the railways, I was emphasising that 1-in-5 of the population are people with disabilities.   Add a travelling companion, carer, family member or friend, and the numbers affected…

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