{"id":113017,"date":"2025-05-19T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113017\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T00:30:09","slug":"dwp-explains-how-pip-payment-cuts-will-affect-state-pensioners-personal-finance-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113017\/","title":{"rendered":"DWP explains how PIP payment cuts will affect state pensioners | Personal Finance | Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DWP has issued guidance on how PIP (Personal Independence Payment) claimants of state pension<\/a> age will be affected by upcoming benefits rules changes.<\/p>\n

From November 2026, a new qualifying criteria for PIP will make it harder to qualify for the benefit, which supports people with the extra costs they have due to a health condition or disability.<\/p>\n

PIP includes a mobility payment and a daily living part, with a higher or lower rate depending on your level of need for each element.<\/p>\n

You currently need to score a total of eight points across the 10 activities you are scored on to get the daily living part, and at least 12 points to get the higher rate. But a new rule is to be added meaning you will also need at least one score of 4 to qualify for the payment.<\/p>\n

DWP<\/a> estimates suggest this will mean by the 2029\/2030 tax year, a total of 800,00 people will lose out on PIP payments, with an average loss of \u00a34,500.<\/p>\n

The daily living element of PIP is currently paid at \u00a373.90 a week at the lower rate, or \u00a33,842.80 a year, and at \u00a3110.40 a week at the higher rate, the equivalent of \u00a35,740.80 a year.<\/p>\n

Conservative MP Alicia Kearns asked the Government how the changes would affect someone of state pension<\/a> age requesting a “change of circumstances review” would be required to meet the new four-point test to continue to get their payments.<\/p>\n

DWP<\/a> minister, Sir Stephen Timms, provided a response. He said: “Our intention is that the changes will apply to new claims and award reviews from November 2026, subject to parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n

“In keeping with existing policy, people of state pension<\/a> age are not routinely fully reviewed and will not be affected by these changes.”<\/p>\n

However, he did refer to some of the responsibilities that PIP claimants have that would apply to claimants of state pension<\/a> age.<\/p>\n

Mr Timms said: “All claimants are required to notify the department of any change to their circumstance, be that an improvement or deterioration in their needs.<\/p>\n

“Upon notification of a change, a case manager will consider what further action might be required to ensure the claimant is receiving the correct level of support.”<\/p>\n

Recent figures from the DWP<\/a> showed the overpayment rate for PIP increased from 0.4% in the 2023\/2024 tax year to 1.3% in the 2024\/2025 year.<\/p>\n

The department said the increase was driven by a “statistically significant” increase in claimants failing to report an improvement in their needs.<\/p>\n

However, the proportion of claims that were overpaid remained at 1 in 100 claims in the 2024\/2025 year, which was the same as the year before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DWP has issued guidance on how PIP (Personal Independence Payment) claimants of state pension age will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,3709,3710,51153,474,2499,51152,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-113017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dwp-pip-latest","10":"tag-dwp-pip-news","11":"tag-dwp-pip-rules","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-pip-eligibility-changes","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114531678566248669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}