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10,000 people finally receive higher benefits payments
AROUND 10,000 people on disability benefits will receive higher payments, ministers announced yesterday after finally rewriting their rules in line with judges’ orders.
The personal independence payment (PIP) claimants will receive any extra £70 to £90 a week, backdated to an Upper Tribunal judgement last March.
Judges ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) must base decisions about claimants on the level of harm that could come to them when carrying out tasks unsupervised, rather than likelihood of harm.
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