The DWP is set to change how people are assessed for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in a bid to crack down on benefit fraud.

It comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced he was worried that the current system was being 'misused'.

The Tory leader spoke of how PIP awards can come off the back of 'subjective and unverifiable claims' that physical or mental illnesses and disabilities are affecting a person's life. Some conditions don't show on medical scans or tests, so the department must take the word of the person claiming on the severity of their own specific condition, Birmingham Live reports.