Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 40692

Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses

Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 31 March 2025

Question

Danny Kruger

Reform UKEast Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, whether people with terminal illnesses will be

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Claimants of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) who are nearing the end of their life will be unaffected by the reforms to the PIP assessment criteria. Claims made under the special rules for end of life are automatically awarded the enhanced rate of the...

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