PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals (6 July 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason it is not her Department's policy to send all claimants with an award of PIP from a First Tier Tribunal a PIP2 form six months before the end of their award to minimise the possibility of a gap in their payments.

Asked by:
Sir Mark Tami (Labour)

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants with an award without a review date have always been able submit a renewal claim up to six months prior to their existing award ending. Prior to 15 May 2021 the Department had been reminding claimants 14 weeks before their existing award was due to end that they could submit a new claim if they considered that they still have needs arising from their health condition or disability. From 15 May 2021 we have been sending the reminder to claim 26 weeks prior to the existing award ending.

Answered by:
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative)
12 July 2021