Question follow-through · 52132
Personal Independence Payment: Pensioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether proposed changes to PIP will include people of pensionable age.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether proposed changes to PIP will include people of pensionable age.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 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.
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