Personal Independence Payment
(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 7 July 2015 to Question 4556, for what reason no financial assessment of the saving or cost to the Exchequer from the transfer of existing disability living allowance claimants to personal independence payments has been made.
An assessment of the financial impact of introducing Personal Independence Payment (PIP) was published in the 2010 budget and subsequent fiscal events have updated the forecast spending on disability benefits. Additionally, there is an available impact assessment (published May 2012) examining the expenditure effects of introducing PIP for new adult claims and migrating existing adult DLA claimants, who satisfy the criteria for reassessment, to PIP, at the following link:
To carry out new analysis would require substantial work which could only be carried out at disproportionate cost.