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The Work Capability Assessment is to be scrapped. The test, despised by many charities, is currently used to decide if someone's ill health makes them eligible for additional benefit payments. From 2026, the government will use another test, currently used to assess eligibility for Personal Independence Payment, the main disability benefit, to decide if someone is eligible for a health-related top-up.But that leaves two million people who don't quality for PIP but do get the additional health benefit.
Both the Work Capability Assessment and the PIP test are viewed with disdain by many people who've been through them.
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