Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 39722

Incapacity Benefit

Tabled: 19 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025

Question

Ian Roome

Liberal DemocratNorth Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for restarting mandatory reassessments of incapacity benefits.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
We will turn on WCA reassessments at scale as we build up capacity to do so. We will initially prioritise reassessments for people who are most likely to have had a change in their circumstances including those who have short-term prognoses, for which we ...

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