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Pay the increased taxes, be happy… Claimants handed disability benefits for acne and writer’s cramp Enhanced Pip payments for people ‘pretending to be ill or deliberately producing symptoms’ revealed by DWP figures Benefit claimants with conditions including acne and writer’s cramp have been handed additional disability payments from the Government, official figures show. A new analysis of data from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has found a sharp rise in a number of conditions suffered by people claiming extra money because of mobility problems. This included 13 people who received enhanced personal independence payment (Pip) for “factitious disorders,” which are conditions when a patient “pretends to be ill or deliberately produces symptoms of illness”, according to the NHS definition. Other problems reported by claimants receiving “enhanced” mobility payments of £77 a week included five people with acne, six with writer’s cramp – a movement disorder that makes it hard to use the hands – and 31 with food intolerances. It came as the Government launched a review into Pip, after a rebellion of more than 120 Labour MPs against Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to reduce the number of people who can claim it. Sir Stephen Timms, a welfare minister, will now run a consultation with disabled people, charities and other stakeholders to determine how the rules should be changed. The Labour government argues that it must try to reduce the cost of welfare in Britain, which has seen a sharp rise since the Covid-pandemic mostly through more claims for mental illness.

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Pay the increased taxes, be happy…...[more]	Denc 🗡	08:36:29
>> I shall be putting in my claim for…...[more]	Denc 🗡	08:38:51

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