[Vicky.]

http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/new...-mental-health

Rather than try to fight the case any further, the government have resorted to a change in the regulations, which doesn’t require any kind of debate or vote in parliament.

From 16 March the law will be changed so that the words “For reasons other than psychological distress” will be added to the start of descriptors c, d and f in relation to “Planning and following journeys”.

Anyone else find this ****ing ridiculous?! Is psychological distress not reason enough? This seems to be so cruel and basically just a bit of a **** you to people who duffer extreme anxiety and such. This basically means those suffering from, for example, severe agoraphobia will be unable to receive disability payments...as 'psychological distress' is not a problem at all apparently and doesn't 'count'. So in short, mental health issues are all in your head and do not actually affect your life?

Look after our own indeed...

Also before anyone starts about 'faking' anxiety conditions...PIP is rather hard to get and requires a boatload of actual evidence. So if someone turned up at the assessment and just said 'I cant go out on my own' they would NOT be awarded this anyway...