Email Request from Benefits and Work:

The Timms review held the first of 15 workshops yesterday. We believe these workshops will later be cited as evidence that disabled people co-produced the idea of using disability-related costs to help determine PIP awards.

So, we’re asking you to give your opinion on the proposal before any more workshops are held.

Each of those workshops has a maximum of just 20 disabled people attending. They are unlikely to have met each other before, will have had no chance to share ideas beforehand and will have no control over the proceedings. The review team, on the other hand, will have had weeks to prepare the format and materials.

So, we want our readers to provide their own responses to the suggestion that PIP awards should be based on a fair contribution by the DWP towards the extra costs of disability, with proposed categories including “equipment and aids; mobility and transport; clothing and bedding.”

That way, some of the claimants who attend the workshops will be able to pass on not only their own views, but also the opinions of what we hope will be thousands of respondents to this survey.
Whatever happens, heavily managed Timms review workshops should not be the only source of feedback on this idea.

Our survey is completely anonymous and you can only complete it once.

There is a live link to the survey results, and we will also be publishing a selection of your comments each day. So please don’t post anything you would not be happy to see published online.
If there are many hundreds of comments, we will also use AI to produce a summary of what has been said.

You can complete the survey here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/timms — please share the link.

You can also follow a link to the live results and read comments here.