Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 47033

Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Visual Impairment

Tabled: 22 April 2025

Answered: 30 April 2025

Question

Victoria Collins

Liberal Democrat — Harpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy that claimants of (a) Personal Independence Payment and (b) Universal Credit with sight loss conditions that have no prospect of improvement will be exempt from reassessme

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

Our wide-ranging package of reforms to health and disability benefits, set out in the Pathways to Work Green Paper, will improve experiences of the system for those who need it. The functional impact and severity of a condition can significantly vary acro...

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