PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
State Retirement Pensions: Disability (4 March 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an estimate of the number of people with disabilities in the UK that (a) stopped receiving a mobility allowance and (b) lost access to the Motability Scheme as a result of reaching state pension age in 2023.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

Claimants in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) before reaching state pension age, are still entitled to their award after reaching state pension age.

No claimant over state pension age will lose their mobility component or access to the Motability scheme providing they continue to meet the qualifying conditions of the benefit.

During 2022-23, an average of 226,000 PIP claimants of pension age received the enhanced mobility award in England & Wales. Any claimant in receipt of enhanced rate mobility can choose to exchange this for a lease on a Motability car, powered wheelchair or scooter.

We do not hold data on how many PIP claimants over state pension age choose to use the Motability scheme.

Answered by:
Mims Davies (Conservative)
12 March 2024