Personal Independence Payment: Learning Disability
2026-06-10 · Department for Work and Pensions · HL887 · Official question
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government what formal, mandatory safeguard mechanisms exist within the Personal Independence Payment Transform Decision Making pilot to require a non-clinical departmental case manager to refer a case back to a healthcare professiona
Answer
Transformed decision making aims to rebalance the way Personal Independence Payment entitlement decisions are made by refocusing Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) on providing clear, factual evidence, while reinforcing the role of DWP Case Managers to make ...