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<p /> <p> </p><p>Both Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence
Payment (PIP) have been designed to take full account of progressive conditions such
as Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s.</p><p> </p><p>Entitlement to both ESA and PIP
is based on the impact of the claimant’s disability or health conditions. If a claimant
has a progressive health condition, healthcare professionals will take this into consideration
when providing advice to the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Both ESA and PIP are kept under
constant review: Dr Paul Litchfield is due to publish the fifth and final statutory
review of the Work Capability Assessment before the end of the year and Paul Gray
will be publishing the first PIP independent review by the end of the year.</p>
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