Question follow-through · 25594
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of Personal Independence Payments in covering additional costs associated with disability.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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- State Retirement Pensions: Women · 15 Jan 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of Personal Independence Payments in covering additional costs associated with disability.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jan 2025
Answer published
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) provides a contribution to the extra costs that may arise from a long-term disability or health condition. PIP is a non-contributory, non-means-tested, additional cost benefit and can be worth over £9,500 a year, tax fr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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