DWP confirms plans to begin testing matching people’s health conditions to ‘specialist assessors’ later this year
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that plans to begin “testing matching people’s primary health condition to a specialist assessor” will start later this year. Minister for Disabled People Tom Pursglove MP, said that assessors will “take part in training to specialise in the functional impacts of specific health conditions”.
Under the new proposals, instead of undergoing a WCA, the Personal Independence Payment assessment would be used to decide whether a person will receive the new Universal Credit health element. “This year, we will begin testing matching people’s primary health condition to a specialist assessor. As part of this, assessors will take part in training to specialise in the functional impacts of specific health conditions.”
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