DWP secretly exposes 150,000 PIP claimants to new assessment system that is ‘recipe for disaster’

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**The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is secretly testing sweeping new rules – described as a “recipe for disaster” – on disability benefit assessments, which will reduce the influence of healthcare professionals and hand greater responsibility to civil servants.** The new rules for personal independence payment (PIP) assessments have been introduced through a pilot project that is part of …