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Social Security Benefits: Reform

Commons · Question 63098 · Tabled 26 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 4 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Scott Arthur

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to (a) simplify the benefits system and (b) increase its accessibility for claimants.

Answer

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 4 Jul 2025

Our wide-ranging package of reforms to health and disability benefits, set out in the Pathways to Work Green Paper, will improve experiences of the system for those who need it. We are simplifying the system by abolishing the WCA and instead using the PIP...