The Government’s proposals will mean that as well as getting a certain number of points across all assessment categories, people will also have to score higher in specific categories. This change could mean fewer autistic people will get PIP at all, because the type of support they often need in many parts of their daily lives (like being reminded or prompted to do things) score lower in the assessment.
Even worse, because of other proposals, autistic people who are not in work will also lose a large part of their out-of-work benefits due to this change.
