Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 45884

Personal Independence Payment: Veterans

Tabled: 17 April 2025
Answered: 28 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Kate Osborne

LabourJarrow and Gateshead East

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to Personal Independence Payment eligibility criteria on veterans with service-related (a) mental and (b) physical

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department does not centrally record the veteran status of PIP claimants.In our recent Pathways to Work Green Paper, published on the 18 March 2025, we announced a broad package of reforms to the health and disability benefit and support system. No ch...

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