People with depression and anxiety set to lose sickness benefits

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In an interview with The Times, Mr Stride suggested this would mean people with “milder mental health conditions” would no longer receive financial support. The three key changes set to be included in the Green Paper According to reports – changing PIP eligibility criteria to better reflect how conditions affect a claimant’s daily life; – making the PIP assessment more closely linked to someone’s condition, including removing assessments entirely for some conditions supported by medical evidence; – moving away from a fixed cash benefit for some conditions, providing either one-off grants for specific costs such as home adaptation, or ensuring access to “alternative means of support”. Rishi Sunak said Monday’s Green Paper marked “the next chapter of our welfare reforms” that would make the benefits system “fairer to the taxpayer, better targeted to individual needs and harder to exploit”. He said: “It’s clear that our disability benefits system isn’t working in the way it was intended, and we’re determined to reform it to ensure it’s sustainable for the future, so we can continue delivering support to those who genuinely need it most.” The Government hopes the overall impact will be to move to a system where PIP is more geared towards covering the actual extra costs faced by people with disabilities.