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Personal Independence Payment: Homelessness

Commons · Question 60944 · Tabled 18 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 26 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Steve Darling

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help prevent homelessness among people that receive Personal Independence Payment.

Answer

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 26 Jun 2025

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is there to help people, now and into the future, with the extra costs of living with a disability.PIP is not intended to cover housing costs, which are paid through Universal Credit or Housing Benefit, but my departmen...