Lose payment in number of teenagers at the age of 16 years

Teenage teenagers with incurable conditions are among hundreds of hundreds of people in the week, who are stripped of disability benefits after their 16th birthday.

About one third of those who received disability living allowance (DLA) in childhood had claims for personal freedom payments (PIPs), when trying to get into adult profit, BBC analysis has been found in the BBC analysis.

Disability Charity Scope stated that the system contributed to a “complex, unfavorable and difficult navigating” system.

With the comprehensive profit correctional proposals expected within weeks, the Prime Minister Kir Stmper called the current system “unstable, uncertain and inappropriate” this week.

Experts stated that the conditions resulting from the refused claim can be managed more successfully by an adult than an adult, such as diabetes or asthma, said experts.

But since the introduction of PIP in 2013, the claims were rejected, living with thousands of people with life -changing conditions including cancer, blindness, psychosis, deafness and epilepsy.

The 124,000 youth affected since then include Holi Crouche, who said that the work for the department and the decision by Pension (DWP) felt like “like a burden” when “nothing changed but my age”.

She said that when she applied as a teenager, she was denied the pip, despite giving evidence from experts that she was in danger of suddenly, deadly epilepsy seizures.

Miss Crowuch said that DWP had decided that it no longer needed support as it was seizing for several weeks.

Holi’s parents later lost their careful allowances, but still have to provide continuous supervision.

The 21 -year -old East Sussex said: “My condition has not magically disappeared and I am not throwing it.

“Everything was taken so soon and I felt angry, neglected and as I did not believe. It was very difficult to deal with it.”

Holi said that she had lost three jobs due to her epilepsy and without pip “had to trust others for everything”.

“I will never feel like an adult because I can’t do things that everyone is able to do, such as drive or work,” he said. “My parents also have to be there when I bathe or boil a kettle because I could have a seizure.

“I think the conditions may change, but that are reviews – you should not stop your money only at the age of 16 when you are not enough for this process.”

Scope’s Executive Director James Taylor said the number of youth losing on financial aid was “worrisome”.

He called upon the government to work with people with disabilities and “fix our broken welfare system”.

According to the BBC analysis, three-fourths of people who were disqualified for PIP failed in DWP’s point-based evaluation.

While an appeal can be filed and some people receive high prizes under PIP compared to DLA, the BBC has heard of young people that despite the significant impact of their disability on daily life, the profit denied.

they include:

• Many who allegedly failed to evaluate because they were able to work part -time or go to school or college
• A teenager with Down syndrome who told her PIP evaluator that she could do everything that she was quizzed, but she did not interpret the intensive support required to do so.
• With the difficulties of learning a teenager who said that he could cook for himself, but he did not mention that he has broken many microwaves in an attempt to do so

Concerns about the PIP evaluators were repeatedly raised, which lacked the knowledge of specific circumstances and decisions, which was being taken for medical evidence or contacting those involved in the care of the claimant.

Disability and welfare rights organizations say that the system results in incorrect decisions, with DWP results often overturns in the tribunal.

The Royal National Institute for Blind Peepal, Epilepsy Society, National Autistic Society and contact are among those inviting for rapid improvement.

• Personal freedom payment is a benefit for -16 with prolonged physical or mental health conditions

• It is not a means-testing and it is aimed at funding the costs of excess of disability related to disability.

• Assessment focuses on how much a person is able to live and use independently Series of questions about daily activities

• Points are honored on the basis of person’s abilities and what help they need

• Those points are added to determine whether the threshold is fulfilled for any claim

• A third party – like a parents or careful – can apply to represent anyone without the ability to do so

Recently, a resolution Foundation report found that the number of youth falls significantly between the age of 15 and 17 in receiving disability benefits.

Think -Tank stated that failure to gain qualification – or to apply – Pip was leaving many “a financial rock -tannare” as they contacted adulthood.

Fightback4justice, which advocates people with disabilities in the welfare system, has called for the process to be more transitional.

Its founder, Mitchell Cardano said: “Young people are considered as adults from the day when they reach 16, when most of the systems do not understand.”

Sally Donley acted for her son Yuan Hayes when she was invited from DLA to infection in Pip.

She says that she spent two hours talking with an evaluation about the impact of the UN’s disability, including autism, obsessive binding disorder, and sensory processing disorders.

Ms. Donley of Hampshire said, “She was assessed with a nurse who had no background in her issues and she only finished scoring points to not mix with others.”

“Because I said that he could cook eggs in the microwave, he said he could cook for himself and he said that he goes to college independently – but it is an expert college that he travels for an hour in a taxi.”

Yuan’s claim was rejected, but the decision finally overturned and when Ms. Donley took DWP into a tribunal, she was given the highest PIP rates.

“This stress puts on families, frightening and cruel,” he said. “You are trying to take care of parents disabled children and it takes them hours to gather evidence to appeal to the court.

“They need to listen and they need to see medical evidence.”

The government is being called to bring the rest of the UK to the rest of the scotland, where the infection for adult disability benefits can now be at 18.

Ms. Donley, who supported those calls, said: “Now Yuan’s 18 and I am still fighting for her. I know that I am fighting for her till my last breath.”

A DWP spokesperson said: “Our gate gate working on Britain, constructing a white paper, we will bring proposals to improve health and disability profit system within weeks, so that it provides children, young adults and their families with the support that is appropriate on the taxpayer, and help those who can protect the employment.”

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