What is the history of disability benefit changes in the UK (2010-2019) and do the DLA/PIP changes make disabled people poorer?

What is the history of disability benefit changes in the UK (2010-2019) and do the DLA/PIP changes make disabled people poorer?

What is the history of disability benefit changes in the UK (2010-2019) and do the DLA/PIP changes make disabled people poorer?

                                     

Welfare Reform Act 2012
Welfare Reform Act 2012

I am writing this on the last day (1st October 2019) I receive Disability Living Allowance as a brief history of welfare reform in the UK as well as myself as an example to show how and where it got to this point. I have been receiving it for at least 16 years (it’s hard to remember back much further than that).
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