Responding to July 2023’s Personal Independence Payment (PIP) data for England and Wales, Ciarán Norris, Head of Campaigns & Public Affairs at Macmillan Cancer Support, says: “It is completely unacceptable that waiting times for processing new Personal Independence Payments claims have got longer. These excruciating waits can have a devastating impact on the lives of many people with cancer, who already face the huge financial burden that can come with a diagnosis, on top of the increasingly high costs of every-day essentials.