Young, Deaf And PIP'd Off: Transforming The Government's Disability Benefit

When the Government launched its disability benefit reforms in 2012, it lauded the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) as being more efficient, more objective, and having disabled people at its heart.In the five years since, the work I do every day with deaf young people has highlighted how this couldn’t be further from the truth.Just this year, the National Deaf Children’s Society helpline had more than 200 inquiries about PIP from concerned young people and their parents. Over