Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 60944

Personal Independence Payment: Homelessness

Tabled: 18 June 2025
Answered: 26 June 2025

Question

Steve Darling

Liberal DemocratTorbay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help prevent homelessness among people that receive Personal Independence Payment.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is there to help people, now and into the future, with the extra costs of living with a disability.PIP is not intended to cover housing costs, which are paid through Universal Credit or Housing Benefit, but my departmen...

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