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The new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Stephen Crabb, has confirmed that the planned cuts to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) would not be going ahead.
Government withdraws planned changes to PIP
In his speech, Stephen Crabb said:
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Behind every statistic there is a human being, and perhaps sometimes in government we forget that.
Crohn’s & Colitis UK are part of the Disability Benefits Consortium of 60 charities, which has been actively campaigning to prevent the cuts:
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We are very pleased that the government has decided not to go ahead with these and now urge that it takes this opportunity to improve the benefit so that it properly reflects the extra costs and nature of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
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