Question follow-through · 6443
Disability: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Scope report entitled Disability Price Tag 2024, what steps she is taking to support disabled households with extra costs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Scope report entitled Disability Price Tag 2024, what steps she is taking to support disabled households with extra costs.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) provides a contribution to the extra costs that may arise from a disability or health condition. There is no objective way of deciding what an adequate level of PIP should be, as everyone has different requirements refl...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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