It’s been a benefit that’s handed out millions of pounds to disabled and poorly people since it was introduced 10 years ago but now the government is set to overhaul the DWP’s Personal Independence Payments with a raft of new proposals.

The government has issued a ‘green paper’, a long consultation document that sets out issues with the current Department for Work and Pensions benefits system for PIP claimants, including a huge increase in the number of people claiming benefits for…