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Targeting those with invisible disabilities undermines the fairness of benefits reform - Telegraph

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Prime Minister May has struck out early and hard for mental health. A key part of her shared society speech in January was what she called the burning injustice of mental illness. Powerful stuff. So the appearance of a set of regulations last week that have the effect of making it more difficult for people with non-physical disability to benefit fully from Personal Independence Payments (Pips) is curious.

Conditions that aren't visible, can't be easily measured and that fluctuate – mental illness and newly recognised disorders like ME and fibromyalgia – struggle for parity of public, professional and political esteem alongside obvious, quantifiable, unremitting disease and disability.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ines-fairness-benefits/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fb

Article is written by Andrew Murrison, Conservative MP and former NHS consultant. As it's quite a good article in terms of treating ME seriously it could be worth contacting him to thank him, his details are here http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/dr-andrew-murrison/1466

ETA: He also has a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/andrew.murrison/
 
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slysaint said:
I'm not on FB any chance you could post it here?
ps sent him an email and he replied to say thanks.
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The appearance of a set of regulations last week that have the effect of making it more difficult for people with non-physical disability to benefit fully from Personal Independence Payments (Pips) is curious.

Read my piece in today's Telegraph on PIP reforms at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/targeting-invisible-disabilit…/
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