Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 40865

Social Security Benefits: Reform

Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 27 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Steve Darling

Liberal DemocratTorbay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to ensure that disabled people who do not receive Personal Independence Payment but have work-related limitations are not adversely impacted by welfare reforms.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
We are committed to protecting disabled people who can't and won’t ever be able to work and support them to live with dignity. As part of making changes to the payment rates in Universal Credit, we are proposing that the incomes of those with the most sev...

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