Tightening Pip benefit eligibility could save £9bn a year, say Reform

Lee Anderson says ‘gaming the system’ is too common and jokes about symptoms of anxiety and depressionUK politics live –latest updatesReform UK have set out plans for changes to personal independence payments (Pip) that the party says could save up to £9bn a year, with Lee Anderson, one of its MPs, saying he used to “game the system” to help people become eligible for the benefit.In Reform’s third consecutive Westminster press conference of the week, Anderson and the head of policy, Zia Yusuf, said the party would bar people with less serious psychological conditions such as anxiety from claiming Pip and would ensure anyone getting the payments would first receive a face-to-face assessment. Continue reading...

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