No to PIP !!
"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule." - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations My wife is a severely ill and disabled person who relies upon DLA. Given the momentous vote in the House Of Lords tomorrow she is very concerned about the article by Paul Goodman in the Guardian today : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/15/duck-reform-disabled-benefits-disability?INTCMP=SRCH ...implying that PIP will be beneficial to people. This is simply not the case. Guardian readers have been given the impression that PIP is a great and right change. In fact it will be a major devastating blow to disability rights if it goes ahead. The idea that people need a team of people getting them back to work and off dependency on DLA is a misrepresentation of genuine need. People who are disabled will always need extra provision because that is the nature of disability. People n...