Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 60110

Universal Credit: Work Capability Assessment

Tabled: 16 June 2025

Answered: 24 June 2025

Question

Patrick Hurley

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people who receive the Universal Credit (UC) health element and do not receive the Personal Independence Payment daily living component will lose their entitlement to the UC health element once

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

The Pathways to Work Green Paper announced that we would be scrapping the Work Capability Assessment and moving to a single assessment for financial support related to health and disability benefits. The UC and PIP payment Bill currently before Parliament...

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