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Personal Independence Payment

Asked by Fabian HamiltonLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 31 March 2025UIN 40997

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support PIP claimants into work.

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms

We announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper that we would establish a new guarantee of support, backed up by £1 billion of new funding. We want this guarantee to have a particular focus on early support, by offering everyone who claims UC and has a work-limiting health condition or who has recently been in receipt of PIP, with a support conversation. This would be focused on their goals and the help they need to achieve them.

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