Mentions:
1: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) They fought for independence and they won, after a demonstration on 28 February 1948. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Amos (Lab - Life peer) Post-war black veterans often struggled to receive support. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ricketts (XB - Life peer) But the initiative for a national memorial in Normandy came from a group of veterans. - Speech Link
4: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) It also has personal resonance for me and my family. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) , and this Government are determined to support veterans, both now and in future. - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord McCabe (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department is taking steps to reduce the number of veterans receiving PIP.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is intended to provide a contribution towards the extra costs of people with long-term health conditions and disabilities and is available irrespective of their past or current employment. The benefit is non means–tested, non-contributory and thus paid regardless of any income or savings. It can be paid at one of eight rates depending on the level of the individual’s needs.
Entitlement to PIP is assessed on the basis of the needs arising from a health condition or disability, rather than the health condition or disability itself. Individuals can be affected in different ways by the same condition and so the outcome of a PIP claim depends very much on individual circumstances. Where a claimant’s needs change they may see a higher or lower award or lose entitlement altogether.
As PIP is needs-based and paid in the terms outlined above, we have no initiatives which are targeted at veterans.
Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) We received around 150,000 pension credit applications in the 16 weeks after the winter fuel payment - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) Especially when it is cold and people have had their winter fuel payment taken away, it is important - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) That includes disability living allowance, attendance allowance and personal independence payment. - Speech Link
4: Danny Kruger (Con - East Wiltshire) independence payment system, or require people on sickness benefits to engage with work coaches. - Speech Link
5: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) We must remember that the Government have taken away the winter fuel payment. - Speech Link
Sep. 12 2024
Source Page: Understanding your armed forces pensionFound: Help using this Veterans UK PDF form About this form • You must download and save this form to your
Asked by: Lord McCabe (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of veterans living in garrison towns that claim (a) PIP and (b) Universal Credit.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
As the hon. Member is aware, the department already collects information on those members of the armed forces community, including veterans, receiving Universal Credit. This information is not required and is provided voluntarily by the claimants.
On Personal Independence Payment, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 13 March 2024 to question UIN 16600.
Mentions:
1: Adam Jogee (Lab - Newcastle-under-Lyme) We see that in our national health service, in our schools, on our railways, in our veterans’ centres - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) She cannot move but has just had her personal independence payment cancelled. - Speech Link
3: Dan Aldridge (Lab - Weston-super-Mare) Looking around, I am thinking more than I usually do of the sacrifices made by so many veterans and current - Speech Link
4: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) this House on the anniversary of VE Day itself, I want to recognise the immense sacrifice those veterans - Speech Link
5: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Stepney) On a personal note, it is a great source of pride for me to be responding to this debate as a Minister - Speech Link
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Mar. 26 2025
Source Page: Supporting documents for Spring Statement 2025Found: Independence Payment (PIP): Change the PIP assessment so claimants must score four points in any one
Mentions:
1: None The rage in this case is mostly felt by those long-serving, decent veterans who did so much to protect - Speech Link
2: None Many veterans believe that there is a deliberate strategy by the republican movement to use the legal - Speech Link
3: Lord Morrow (DUP - Life peer) This is retraumatising our veterans of the security forces, who put their lives on the line against a - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) We will continue to work with them and with veterans groups to make sure that, as and when any support - Speech Link
5: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) My objection to the legislation about the ICRIR was the way in which it lacked independence and was to - Speech Link