Question follow-through · 47033
Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy that claimants of (a) Personal Independence Payment and (b) Universal Credit with sight loss conditions that have no prospect of improvement will be exempt from reassessme
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy that claimants of (a) Personal Independence Payment and (b) Universal Credit with sight loss conditions that have no prospect of improvement will be exempt from reassessme
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
Our wide-ranging package of reforms to health and disability benefits, set out in the Pathways to Work Green Paper, will improve experiences of the system for those who need it. The functional impact and severity of a condition can significantly vary acro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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