Overview
- The DWP has published comprehensive lists of qualifying gastrointestinal conditions and cognitive or communication impairments, including reading difficulties, to guide PIP claimants.
- Personal Independence Payment awards range from £29.20 to £187.45 per week for each of the daily living and mobility components, totaling up to £749.80 every four weeks for enhanced rates.
- Claimants must report specified changes of circumstance—such as planning trips abroad of more than four weeks—to avoid suspension of payments, fines or recovery actions.
- Minister Andrew Western announced more rigorous identity and bank-account checks and increased counter-fraud investment after the department recorded £330m lost to PIP fraud and error last year.
- Around 420,000 PIP claims remain under review and proposed tougher eligibility thresholds have been paused pending Sir Stephen Timms’s co-produced assessment.