While this is a high-profile case, this is pretty emblematic of Conservative and Forced Labour policy. Labour have cut back even further on what constitutes a disability, when in reality many hundreds of thousands of people who should receive PIP do not.
If a state cannot provide comfortable lives for disabled people and, even worse, stigmatises them as scroungers, it is a failed state.
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While I get the joke, I think it’s a little insensitive.
Would have helped to have the acronym explained in the summary.
Edit: I know it’s probably on the article, but if people needs to go into the article to even know the topic, title and text of the post fail to go their job
That’s fair.
I speed read the article but never did it define what PIP was.
I guess it’s similar to the NDIS in Australia - National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Joke was appealing to the nerdy nature of the Fediverse, but since it’s majority down voted, I’ll democratically delete it.
Thank you for taking the feedback 🙂. Yeah sorry I didn’t realise PIP was not explained. As others have said it’s Personal Independence Payment and it’s basically an extra allowance of benefits for disabled people to account for the extra costs they experience in their lives.
At the moment it’s very hard to get and many mental health conditions have recently been excluded by the (Forced) Labour government to “get people back to work”, even though that doesn’t make any sense.
Wow. Here in the US, the average person isn’t even aware that being disabled is more expensive than being able-bodied, so I’m sure it goes without saying that our government does not even attempt to help out with those extra expenses.
Still awful that they make people in the UK jump through hoops to access that help, of course.
I don’t know if it was later updated, but the first paragraph of the article defines the initialism.
You have more upvotes now. Please reinstate it.