Further cuts to disability benefits?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39097019

This feels like a crude misrepresentation of how PIP is assessed and a misunderstanding how mental illness is best treated. If it is just a cost cutting exercise then please be honest enough to say that and that you've chosen people (yet again) with disabilities to bear the brunt of that rather than making light about the benefit process.

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The Liberal Democrats said the government was using court losses "as an excuse to severely restrict disability benefits".

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Perhaps, if you were seeking to save money, then you could seek to improve the assessments and mandatory reconsideration process so that fewer cases end up in court? That way it may only be the borderline cases which go the distance and you could argue that the tribunals are making "bizarre" decisions.

This government is more right wing than Thatcher, the poor and vulnerable are being rubbed in the dirt face down

The Tories are going to bring this country to its knees

Yeah, the current mob have a nastier ideology than Maggie and co had.

They are a bunch of rotters

They are indeed Sludge