The measure is part of plans to reduce the Work Capability Assessment backlog and separate from the Timms Review.

Ahead of Labour’s crunch Spring Statement, details of the rumoured cuts to welfare have grown rife. Estimates of what the government is hoping to save have continued to grow – now sitting at around £6 ...

More than 67 per cent of people claiming PIP for a visual disease have a monthly award of up to £749 for five years or more.

Millions of PIP claimants have been issued awards of five years or longer, with six health conditions showing the highest rates ...

An update has been given to PIP claimants who have conditions like fibromyalgia as officials have clarified their assessment.

New figures from Social Security Scotland show at the end of October, some 491,370 people were receiving Adult Disability Payments (ADP), the devolved benefit that has now replaced all new and ...

More than 120 Labour MPs are trying to block the government's planned changes to the benefits system, which ministers say will save £5bn by 2030. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to "press ...

Britons with acne, constipation and those who abused alcohol and drugs are each claiming almost £10,000 a year in disability benefits from a welfare system that experts warn is no longer fit for ...

At the end of October, PIP and ADP were providing financial support to 4,373,941 people. Psychiatric disorder (39% of claims) Musculoskeletal disease (general) (19% of claims) ...

Recent statistics released by the DWP reveal that there are currently 3.9 million PIP recipients in England and Wales, each ...