EXCLUSIVE: James Merrell, a qualified nurse and former PIP assessor for the DWP, researched and wrote the detailed guide to give applicants the best chances of navigating the benefit successfully James Merrell is a former DWP PIP assessor (Image: jamesmerrellofficial1/TikTok)

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applicants have been given a curated guide on how to navigate the benefit. James Merrell – who previously worked as an assessor for the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) scheme – exclusively provided his research to the Daily Star. ‌

The guide will be provide a degree of certainty to applicants following a large period of proposed changes, U-turns and general confusion. Keir Starmer's Government had announced plans to introduce tougher PIP qualifying criteria a

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