Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 34574

Personal Independence Payment: British Nationals Abroad

Tabled: 27 February 2025

Answered: 6 March 2025

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility criteria for Personal Independence Payments to include people who have been forced to move abroad due to life-threaten

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can continue to be paid during an absence from Great Britain for 13 weeks. This can be increased to 26 weeks where the absence is specifically in relation to medical treatment of the condition which existed prior to a t...

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