PIP has fucking nothing to do with people's employment. It is issued out of recognition of the fact that it *costs money* to be disabled (transport costs, medication, dietary needs, housekeeping, cost of keeping a service animal, earnings lost through sickness, any number of potential things).
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Honestly the only reasonable response to this would be the formation of a disabled workers union and accompanying general strike but absolutely no political or union leaders in this country have the fucking guts.
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So when they say "disability benefits" they mean "the benefits that are paid for extra costs of disability" (i.e. PIP and DLA)