Disability Minsister McVey speaks on DLA to PIP transition timetable

During a parliamentary exchange in the Commons on 18th March 2013, Minister Esther McVey offered a succinct update on the timetable for the transition from DLA to PIP. 

Please note especially her statement ‘Most claimants will not be invited to claim personal independence payment until October 2015 onwards’.

The ‘Reassessments and Impacts briefing note’ to which she refers is not so succinct, but is recommended reading nevertheless.

We also direct readers to our recent blog postings on this topic.

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Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde, Labour)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the criteria is for the selection of people for reassessment of their disability living allowance ahead of a possible transfer to personal independent payment.

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Esther McVey (Wirral West, Conservative)

Every disability living allowance claimant who is aged 16 to 64 on 8 April 2013, or who reaches age 16 after that date, will be invited to claim personal independence payment from October 2013 onwards. Most claimants will not be invited to claim personal independence payment until October 2015 onwards. Further information on the criteria for selection to claim personal independence payment and the timetable over which that is happening has been published in a Reassessments and Impacts briefing note, available on the Department’s website at:  www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/pip-reassessments-and-impacts.pdf