Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 47023

Means-tested Benefits: Disability

Tabled: 22 April 2025
Answered: 30 April 2025

Question

Adam Jogee

Labour — Newcastle-under-Lyme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of disabled people in receipt of a means-tested benefit but not in receipt of Personal Independence Payment in (a) Staffordshire and (b) England.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
There are an estimated 1.7 million disabled people of working age who are in receipt of a means-tested benefit but not in receipt of Personal Independence Payment or an equivalent disability benefit in England, and an estimated 0.6 million of pension age....
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