Question follow-through · 17610
Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the average processing time between an application being accepted and the first payment for DLA and PIP for children and young people under 25 with cancer.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
- Disability Living Allowance · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the average processing time between an application being accepted and the first payment for DLA and PIP for children and young people under 25 with cancer.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2026
Answer published
Reducing customer journey times for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants is a priority for the Department and we are working constantly to make improvements to our service. More information can be found here:...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Disability Living Allowance
13 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to apply the findings from the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment: interim report to Disability Living Allowance in areas where elements of both systems operate in similar wa