Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 40873

Personal Independence Payment: Multiple Sclerosis

Tabled: 24 March 2025

Answered: 31 March 2025

Question

Tristan Osborne

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the revised Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment criteria accounts for (a) fluctuating and (b) hidden symptoms of multiple sclerosis; and if

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

We have committed 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 Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The PIP assessment considers th...

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