Question follow-through · 41966
Personal Independence Payment: Carer's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the Personal Independence Payment qualifying criteria and the consequential effect on Carer's Allowance eligibility
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 27 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the Personal Independence Payment qualifying criteria and the consequential effect on Carer's Allowance eligibility
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
We have committed to introduce a new requirement that, in addition to the existing eligibility criteria, 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 Independ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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