Social Security Benefits: Disability

(asked on 20th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of suspending the rule stopping personal independence payment, disability living allowance and attendance allowance after a 28 day stay in hospital during the covid-19 pandemic.


Answered by
Chloe Smith Portrait
Chloe Smith
This question was answered on 31st January 2022

We have no plans to change these rules. Once someone is discharged from hospital, payment of these benefits recommences from the date of discharge.

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