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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Kate Lally

PIP could be scrapped with people given up to £231 a week instead

A radical plan that would see Personal Independence Payments (PIP) thrown out has been unveiled by a group of benefit claimants and those who have previously needed financial help.

Instead, all adults would get at least £83.70 a week - with some getting almost three times this.

The changes have been proposed by the Commission on Social Security group and include a new “extra costs” benefit for disabled people.

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