BBC article: UK government cuts pensioners PIP checks, but puts more pressure on disabled people to work.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47443955

Disabled pensioners will no longer face "unnecessary" repeat assessments to continue receiving benefits, the work and pensions secretary will announce.

From this spring, about 270,000 people will not have personal independence payments (PIPs) regularly reviewed.

But a disability group said millions of younger people would "still be stuck in a failing system".

Amber Rudd is also due to increase a government target for getting a million more disabled people into work by
2027......
 
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