The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is looking for an external provider of an assessment service and supporting IT for the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
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North of the country will be the first to get the new PIP benefit
North first to get new PIP benefit
(UKPA) – 1 hour ago
Disabled benefit claimants in the north of England will be the first to receive the Government’s new personal independence payment (PIP).
Ministers are scrapping the disability living allowance handout for two million people of working age and replacing it with the PIP which will involve an individual assessment in a bid to cut down on overpayments.
However amid wrangling as the Welfare Reform Bill went through Parliament earlier this year, the Department of Work and Pensions agreed to stagger its introduction.
PIP to replace DLA April 2013
DWP seeks IT to support new disability benefit
Department for Work and Pensions advertises for assessment service and IT to deliver Personal Independence Payment
- Gill Hitchcock
- Guardian Professional,Wednesday 14 September 2011 10.50 BSA
