Personal Independence Payment

(asked on 6th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department has assessed whether the new personal independence payment claims, assessment and decision-making process meets obligations to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people, including terminally ill people; what mechanisms are being used for gathering feedback from claimants on the new process; and how many people have provided feedback on the process to date.


Answered by
Mike Penning Portrait
Mike Penning
This question was answered on 16th June 2014

The Department carries out analysis of the likely impacts of its policies on protected groups, including disabled people as required by the Equality Act. Equality impact assessments conducted in respect of PIP are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-living-allowance-reform-equality-impact-assessment.

Although we do not keep details of the numbers of individual claimants who have provided feedback, we regularly receive and consider feedback from a variety of sources including claimants, our staff, providers and from our Implementation Stakeholder Forum which hears views from a wide range of organisations representing and supporting disabled people. I, along with my officials, meet regularly with organisations representing disabled people.

We are conducting two independent reviews of PIP, the first of which will report by the end of 2014. The terms of reference for this review are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/simplifying-the-welfare-system-and-making-sure-work-pays/supporting-pages/introducing-personal-independence-payment.

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