Tories: Govt 'slow' at reforming PIP system

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Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately says that a new government review into Personal Independence Payments (PIP) only points out "problems we already knew about" and doesn't offer "proposals for reform". Whately says Labour has been "slow" reintroducing face-to-face PIP assessments among other reforms. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think there's a lot wrong with the sickness benefit system, the PIP system that we have, and it's changed

00:06over time as well, and one of the things that we saw in the pandemic is a shift away from

00:10face-to-face assessments to more over the phone. That needs to come back. For instance, face-to-face assessments

00:15should be a fundamental part of the system. The government is being very slow at sorting that out, but I'm

00:20really disappointed in their review today because they should be coming forward with proposals for substantial reform of the system,

00:26and all this review does is point out problems with the system.

00:29And frankly, they are problems that we already knew about.

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