Question follow-through · 40873
Personal Independence Payment: Multiple Sclerosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the revised Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment criteria accounts for (a) fluctuating and (b) hidden symptoms of multiple sclerosis; and if
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the revised Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment criteria accounts for (a) fluctuating and (b) hidden symptoms of multiple sclerosis; and if
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
We have committed to introduce a new requirement that claimants must score a minimum of four points in at least one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The PIP assessment considers th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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