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 DemocratTorbay

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 Timms
We 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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