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Local fund to replace Pip for most young disabled people under Milburn plans

Local fund to replace Pip for most young disabled people under Milburn plans

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Exclusive: Former health secretary says he wants to ‘tear up the old approach’, with under-25s to lose personal independence paymentsUK politics live – latest updatesYoung people with disabilities will lose their personal independence payments and will have to apply instead to a local fund for short-term expenses and equipment, Alan Milburn’s review will recommend.Under-25s will be barred from claiming Pip and the health element of universal credit and instead will get a new youth allowance paid at the standard rate of universal credit. Continue reading…

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