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Radio 4,19 Jun 2018,45 mins
Call You and Yours: How is the disability benefits system working for you?
You and YoursAvailable for over a year
On our weekly phone in we'd like to know how the disability benefits system is working for you. It's five years since the government introduced Personal Independence Payments to replace the old benefit, Disability Living Allowance. Everyone on the old benefit is being reassessed. Today new research is criticising a rule in the assessment process claiming it's harming some disabled people - who are losing their independence as a result. The government has already promised to make improvements to the way the assessment system works. If you get disability benefits we'd like to know how the system working for you. If you've been reassessed, what was it like? How has the change in the system affected you? Email us now you&[email protected] and leave your number so we can call you back. Presenter: Winifred Robinson Producer: Jess Quayle.
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