Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 61330

Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Tabled: 19 June 2025
Answered: 26 June 2025

Question

Adam Dance

Liberal DemocratYeovil

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome impacted by changes to Personal Independence Payments.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
We have committed in the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill to introduce a new requirement that claimants must score a minimum of four points in at least one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living component of PIP. ...

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