Petition · past parliament

Mental Health disabilites should be treated like a physical disability (PIP)

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

PiP is discriminating mental health disabilities
Having mental health can be just as disabling as a physical disability.
mental health disabilities you can’t see the daily struggles and pain but because we don’t have physical ailments we are passed of with having no disabilities, even when we do
the last few years mental health has started to be recognised as an illness, still a taboo subject
Mental health Is a disability, it affects your ability to socialise,shop, be independent everything like being in a wheelchair does.
Just because you can’t see doesn’t mean we’re not disabled.
Pip is for people with disability so stop discriminating and being predujice
In Scotland and Wales people with severe mental health are entitled to a blue badge & PiP
MH Services are suffering, so are we

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

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Timeline

16 Mar 2018 Petition opened for signatures
22 Mar 2018 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 22 Mar 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.