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The truth about PIP

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Saturday, 23 August, 2025
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WIN Founder Lana Hempsall has written in The Spectator about Britain’s spiralling disability benefits system, with PIP applications doubling since 2019 and widespread online guidance, from forums to ‘sickfluencers’, showing how easily the process can be gamed. She argues that the system’s complexity and reliance on self-reported claims, especially via phone assessments, create incentives for exaggeration while leaving genuinely vulnerable people struggling to access support. Lana concludes that welfare is increasingly open to abuse and fails to help people move into work, making urgent reform essential.

Read the full article here: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-truth-about-pip/

 

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