A call to collect and analyse recordings of personal independence payment assessments

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ID12312850
AuthorsJoseph Webb (0000-0003-1818-0276, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, corresponding author), Albert (0000-0003-1043-1237, University of Loughborough, UK)
Year2022
Volume37
Issue5
Pages881-887
Publication date2022-04-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDisability & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09687599.2022.2060805
OpenAlexW4223592038
LanguageEN
References cited7

Recent UK policy changes enable claimants to record their Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments, presenting an opportunity to study how they are produced interactionally. Disabled people have often reported feeling disempowered by PIP assessments, and these assessments are notoriously inaccurate – the vast majority are overturned in the claimants’ favour upon appeal. Given the quality of claimants’ lives often depends on their outcome, it is urgent to learn how the assessment process yields so many successful appeals. Here we analyse a small sample of one PIP assessment recording, uploaded to YouTube by the claimant, to show the importance of understanding these high-stakes interactional situations. We intend for this to show the importance of looking at the interactional detail of PIP assessments, which have hitherto been hidden from scrutiny because of the difficulty of obtaining recordings of assessments

Appeal · Feeling · Independence (probability theory · Internet privacy · Payment · Plaintiff · Political science · Quality (philosophy · Scrutiny · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Disability Rights and Representation · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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