A disability website claims it can secure a lifetime on benefits for £50. Karol Slusarczyk has published an online guide to claiming Personal Independence Payment (Pip), which is being marketed as an investment promising a 190-fold return.
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are offered coaching through the website, with claims it can hand them a lifetime of disability payments. The site is charging PIP claimants a fee of £49.99, according to the Telegraph.
Website offers step-by-step PIP maximisation advice
The website, ran by Slusarczyk, has a domain name listed as pipexpert.co.uk. The URL gives PIP claimants step-by-step instructions on how to maximise their claim, telling them: “A single Pip award is worth hundreds of times the cost. Don’t lose thousands because of wrong wording on the form.” The website also offers a premium option for £99.99, and a £149.99 “mandatory reconsideration pack”.
Creator defends service amid fraud concerns
Slusarczyk said he launched his websites because the benefits system “fails people who cannot describe their own disability in the words the law requires”. He added: “I am firmly against benefit fraud, and nothing I sell is designed to help anyone obtain money they are not entitled to.
“My guidance is built from the published rules, principally the descriptors in Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 and official DWP guidance, and from what each customer tells me about their own conditions and daily life. Nothing else goes into it.
“My systems are expressly instructed never to add, embellish or invent symptoms, dates or severity. Customers are told to edit the wording into their own words, they complete and submit the form themselves, and they sign the declaration on it confirming the information is true. Nothing is submitted to the DWP by me.”
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