Timms says PIP review will report before year end

Sir Stephen Timms has told MPs that the review of Personal Independence Payment he is co-chairing will report before the end of the year. His answer, recorded in Hansard on 12 October, did not announce the abolition of PIP cash payments for people with ADHD. The exchange concerns a benefit available to eligible people in Wales as well as England. A parliamentary question is not itself a change to someone’s award.

What the minister was answering

Conservative MP Joe Robertson asked whether cash benefits for some people should give way to therapeutic support. In reply, Timms referred to Professor Peter Fonagy’s report and the PIP review’s work on disabled people’s needs and the benefit’s future finances. The minister gave a timetable for that review report. His answer did not set out a new rule excluding an ADHD diagnosis or a date on which cash payments would stop.

What current eligibility guidance says

The GOV.UK eligibility page still lists long-term physical or mental health conditions or disabilities, alongside difficulty with certain everyday tasks or getting around. Applicants must normally be at least 16, and expect those difficulties to last at least 12 months from when they began. Other age, residence and eligibility conditions also apply. That is general guidance, not a decision on an individual claim. The official page is linked below so readers can check the current rules rather than treat an MP’s question or a proposed review as an announced benefit cut.