Personal Independence Payment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the new four point rule for daily living on households where there are more than one claimant who will no longer qualify.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
No assessment has been made. The Department does not hold data on the number of other people living in the households of individual Personal Independence Payment claimants.
Information on the proportion of households that receive multiple Personal Independence Payment awards can be found in the answer to PQ 48279 here Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament.
Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper has been published here ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’(opens in a new tab).
After taking account of behavioural changes, OBR predicts that 370,000 people who will be receiving PIP at the point of implementation of the four point requirement in November 2026, will have lost their PIP Daily Living entitlement by 2029/30. Of all PIP recipients at the point of implementation, 9 in 10 will not lose PIP during the subsequent 3 years from this change.
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