Call to scrap the 6 month rule for terminally ill welfare claimants
Southern Area Hospice along with 25 other health charities and welfare advice groups have warned that dying people in Northern Ireland are ‘falling through the cracks’ in the welfare system and are calling on Stormont to reform ‘cruel’ benefit laws for terminally ill people.
The letter was submitted to Communities Minister Carál Ní Chuilín, and urged the Government to scrap rules that only allow terminally ill people to claim fast-track access to benefits like PIP and Universal Credit if they can provide evidence they will die within six months.
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