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Kate Lally & Sophie Buchan

PIP could be scrapped and replaced with system to cover extra costs for disabilities

A new benefits plan which would see Personal Independence Payment (PIP) be scrapped has been proposed leaving some people upwards of £200 per week.

The changes are being suggested by the Commission on Social Security, a group of benefit claimants and those who have previously needed financial help, which aims to include a new "extra costs" benefit for disabled people.

They are funded by inequality campaign group Trust for London who aim to look ways to radically reform of the benefit system.

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