Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
PIP payments could be axed and adults paid £231 every week instead
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPlans have been laid out to scrap PIP (Personal Independence payments) in the UK. PIP payments were brought in to replace Disability Living Allowance, and provide financial support to those struggling with physical illness, disabilities or mental health.
However, The Commission on Social Security wants to scrap PIP for a different system, reports the ECHO. Instead, all adults would get at least £83.70 a week - with some getting almost three times this. READ MORE: State Pension amount will change for millions of women in the UK from April The changes have been proposed by the Commission on Social Security group and include a new “extra costs” benefit for disabled people.
The Commission, whose leaders all say they have “lived experience of the benefits system”, argues that the current benefits system should be replaced by something with something that is no longer “guided by stereotypes and myths about disabled people and people in poverty”.
In terms of a new disability benefit to replace PIP, The Commission proposes a new non-means-tested benefit to cover the extra costs that disabled people face due to illnesses and impairments.
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