Overview

• The Welfare Reform Bill, due in Parliament on June 16, will tighten PIP rules and reduce Universal Credit health top-ups to save £5bn annually by 2030.
• Claimants will need at least four points in a single PIP daily living activity to qualify, a change that could affect 370,000 existing recipients.
• Transitional measures will allow individuals to keep PIP or linked carers’ allowance for 13 weeks after failing reassessment under the new criteria.
• Non-negotiable legal safeguards will exempt those with terminal illnesses or lifelong conditions from cuts and avoid regular reassessments.
• Charities and roughly 170 Labour MPs have threatened to vote against the bill, citing risks of pushing 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, into relative poverty.