A new online petition has been created calling on the UK Government to conduct a full review into the way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) administers Personal Independence Payment (PIP), specifically the role independent assessors play in the application process. It is the second petition in a matter of days to raise concerns over assessments, going as far as to call them “inhumane and degrading”.
Both of these petitions raise awareness and concerns on behalf of concerned disabled people across the UK in the hopes of affecting positive change. However, they rely on members of the public supporting their campaign to reach significant thresholds which can either trigger an official response from the UK Government (10,000 signatures) or have it considered for debate in Parliament (100,000).
It’s worth noting that the Disability News Service, run by John Pring, a disabled journalist who has been reporting on disability issues for nearly 25 years, have been campaigning strongly against these assessments for more than 12 years.
