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The introduction of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in 2013 coincided with a tightening of the criteria for those claiming the enhanced mobility component of PIP. The new 20 metre rule has replaced the 50 metre criteria associated with Disability Living Allowance, with the result that fewer people with MS are now qualifying for the top rate of PIP compared to DLA applicants, and many are losing their mobility support. Whereas a distance of 50 metres was typically used to assess people for the upper rate of the mobility component of DLA, 20 metres is the new distance...