https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publications/work-wont-cut-it-income-from-employment-and-benefits-for-disabled-people/ This briefing presents analysis of how incomes for disabled people would change, if cuts to Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit were introduced today and the people affected were able to move into paid employment. In many cases, people would see only a small increase in income by working full-time – and in some…
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Pathways to Work: Impact Assessments
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-04-23/47466 To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 42060 on Pathways to Work: Impact Assessments, whether her Department’s further programme of analysis will include a disaggregation of data by category of (a) disability and (b) health condition.
Shake up to welfare system
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/biggest-shake-up-to-welfare-system-in-a-generation-to-get-britain-working Since the pandemic, the number of working-age people receiving PIP has more than doubled from 15,300 to 35,100 a month. The number of young people (16-24) receiving PIP per month has also skyrocketed from 2,967 to 7,857 a month. Over the next five years, if no action is taken, the number of working age…
Supplementary submission to Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry into safeguarding vulnerable claimants
https://www.nawra.org.uk/2024/11/supplementary-submission-to-work-and-pensions-committees-inquiry-into-safeguarding-vulnerable-claimants/ Following NAWRA’s previous submission for the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into safeguarding vulnerable claimants, we were invited to submit a supplementary submission to the new Committee who have reopened the inquiry. We were asked only to raise new issues so focused on –
State of Health and Care of Older People in England 2024
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/discover/2024/september/state-of-health-and-care-of-older-people-in-england-2024/ Things cannot carry on as they areOur report finds older people are struggling due to insufficient access to high quality NHS treatment, as well as social care, and that the system is under-prepared for population ageing. Age UK publishes a yearly report which analyses the health and care needs of the older population and…
Condition Insight Reports (PIP)
LCNI is today publishing a series of Condition Insight Reports (CIRs) which will assist claimants applying for PIP and those advocating on their behalf. What is a Condition Insight Report (CIR)? A CIR is a health condition report produced and published by Capita (contracted to conduct clinical assessments for PIP and the Work Capability Assessment…
Health-related benefit claims have risen substantially across every part of England and Wales – but there is little evidence of similar trends in other countries
https://ifs.org.uk/news/health-related-benefit-claims-have-risen-substantially-across-every-part-england-and-wales The number of working-age people getting health-related benefits in England and Wales has increased significantly since 2019: from 2.8 million (7.5% of the working-age population) in 2019–20 to 3.9 million (10% of the working-age population) in 2023–24 – growth of 38% in just four years. Over this period, real-terms spending on health-related benefits in…
Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2024
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-statistics-to-july-2024/personal-independence-payment-official-statistics-to-july-2024 The latest Personal Independence Payment (PIP) statistics show that as at 31 July 2024 there were 3.5 million claimants entitled to PIP (caseload) in England and Wales, a 3 percent increase on the number as at 30 April 2024. 37% received the highest level of award, an increase from 36% in April 2024. There…
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the length of time to undertake a PIP review.
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-09-09/4836 Answered on16 September 2024 We continue to prioritise new claims to PIP to ensure claims are put into payment as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, this means many customers are waiting longer than expected for their review to be undertaken.
Current PIP rates
Personal independence payment