DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS ? The Veterans Party Before you read this I will just say I do not have conformation of this story at this time. …Tony I have been told that approximatly 80,000 disabled older veterans, who receive monthly Disability Living Allowance (DLA) that this vital benefit was about to be withdrawn. Yet there is no information about this unexpected threat to British War Pensioners on the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) website, or on the MOD or Veterans-UK websites. The DWP’s threat to the financial survival of these older disabled veterans included a suggestion that working age War Pensioners may wish to apply for the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) that has replaced DLA. This suggestion was accompanied with a stark warning that the award of PIP is not guaranteed, regardless of previous payments of DLA awarded to British military forces who were disabled for life in the service of the nation with a permanent disability that can’t possibly improve. PIP has a 10-12 month waiting list for new applicants and the government’s own figures predict that 600,000 people with permanent disabilities will lose their entitlement to financial support when they lose DLA and attempt to make a claim for PIP. Many experts have already identified the risk to disabled people as the new PIP benefit is rolled out and DLA claimants are reassessed. We are concerned about this but at the moment we do not have any confirmation just a rumour. We would be very interested in any veteran experiencing this difficulty. …Tony:
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 01:18:46 +0000
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