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Within the PIP assessment guidelines, MS is given as an example of a type of condition where a claimant might not require a face-to-face assessment.
This isn’t what is happening on the ground, with the last recorded figures from The MS Society showing that one in three MS claimants had their benefits downgraded. In all, £6 million had been taken from MS claimants since the introduction of PIP.
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