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Disability Benefits Consortium survey on PIP assessments
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- Published on Friday, 25 July 2014 10:01
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In the light of the Work and Benefit Select Committee’s publication of their views on benefit assessments, it is even more vital that we provide data to support changes. The response generally to the surveys have been poor so far. This is not something we as an organisation can do, we need as many people as possible to tell them what their experience has been like. Without this we cannot expect change.
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) have produced a surveyon the PIP assessments. This survey has had minimal responses from people with MSK conditions. The DBC are also producing a wider survey, ‘The Big Benefits Survey’, to understand more on disabled people’s experience of the benefits system. This survey does not cover PIP assessments. Closes midnight on 3rd August.
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