Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential financial effect on people aged between 65 and 69 who, when mandated to migrate from disability living allowance to personal independence payment, may lose entitlement to mobility elements due to the different criteria of those benefits.

When PIP was first introduced, the Government worked with Motability to design an extensive Transitional Support package to support Motability customers who were not awarded the enhanced mobility component on reassessment from DLA to PIP. This gives significant help, including up to £2,000 lump or a lease extension for 6 months, the option to buy their old scheme vehicle, and can obtain help to adapt any new, non-scheme vehicle.

More people between the age of 60-64 have had successful reassessment claims for PIP than any other age group. The following link shows the full reassessment results here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2016

Table 8c has the analysis by age:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/576641/pip-official-statistics-dla-to-pip-reassessment-outcomes-october-2016.ods