Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 41966
Personal Independence Payment: Carer's Allowance
Tabled: 27 March 2025
Answered: 7 April 2025
Question
Steve Darling
Liberal Democrat — Torbay
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the Personal Independence Payment qualifying criteria and the consequential effect on Carer's Allowance eligibility
Answer
Sir Stephen TimmsWe have committed to introduce a new requirement that, in addition to the existing eligibility criteria, claimants must score a minimum of four points in at least one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living component of Personal Independ...
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