SDEF Consultations - Personal Independence Payment

Personal Independence Payment

As many of you may know the UK Government intend to replace the Disability Living Allowance benefit with the Personal Independence Payment. The Government have released a draft of the Assessment Regulations that will outline the way people will be assessed for the new payment. I have attached our briefing on the draft Regulations to this email. It contains a summary of some of the main features of the new Regulations.

This is the summary of some of the main features of the new Regulations. MS Word document/questionnaire came along with the above information "SDEF Consultations - Personal Independence Payment" I found this very informative (website editor, MS sufferer & DLA recipient). "Click Here" to view the summary document.

You can access more information from the Department of Work and Pensions website by following this link:
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/policy/welfare-reform/legislation-and-key-documents/welfare-reform-bill-2011/personal-independence-payment-briefing/

We feel that it is extremely important to inform you about these proposals and to seek your views. Many of the new features of the Personal Independence Payment are quite different from Disability Living Allowance. There will be a pilot of the new Assessment Regulations over the summer with an opportunity to submit responses at the start of August. It is vital your views, opinions and ideas are heard; please let us know your thoughts to help us prepare our response on this subject.

To respond you can do one of many things:

• You can complete our online survey. This survey uses the questions contained in the briefing I have attached to this email. You can access the survey by following this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JJGWYSL

• You can reply to this email or contact Susan (susan.grasekamp@sdef.org.uk) with any feedback you would like to share.

• You can send us your views by post to:

                        Scottish Disability Equality Forum
                        12 Enterprise House
                        Springkerse Business Park
                        Stirling
                        FK7 7UF

I look forward to hearing from you.

Euan McDougall
Policy Officer
Scottish Disability Equality Forum
01786 446559

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