All news on the topic: Disability benefits

Attendance Allowance is a benefit given to people over the state pension age who have a medical condition or disability and need help with their day to daycare

To help people to better determine their chances of eligibility before they make an application, the DWP highlighted the top five recorded conditions that people claim PIP for

The Department for Work and Pensions has highlighted the various groups of people who are eligible for the new round of cost of living payments, including claimants of Universal Credit and other benefits, and urged local councils to consider who else might benefit from additional support

If your claim for PIP is unsuccessful, there are steps you can take with the first being the Mandatory Reconsideration process, however if this is unsuccessful, you can also take the DWP to court

The Department for Work and Pensions is proposing a shake-up to the benefit which is seeing 70,000 new applications every month and is currently claimed by around 3.5 million people

Last week, the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) published its proposals for the Government's planned overhaul of the disability benefit PIP

The DWP's Green Paper, which detailed the Government's overhaul proposals, said handing cash payments to people on disability benefits was "compensation for being disabled"

The Government has come under heavy fire over its new plans to overhaul the disability benefit PIP - here is everything you need to know about the Government's plans for PIP and the disability benefits system

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a raft of changes to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits and Universal Credit system, including a major overhaul of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) system

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a stringent new approach to benefit claimants, announcing significant overhauls to the benefits system in a speech at the Centre for Social Justice last week

The latest Money Saving Expert (MSE) newsletter warned that over one million old Brits were missing out on a benefit called Attendance Allowance - the MSE site claims that it is one of the most "most underclaimed" benefits in the UK

A court ruling in 2019 changed the DWP's PIP assessment rules and the benefits department is now contacting those affected - here is everything you need to know about the backdated PIP payments

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to increase the amount of money it pays out to people on Personal Independence Payments from Monday, April 8

Currently, Scotland's 300,000 PIP claimants are having their claims stopped and are being transferred to the new Adult Disability Payment (ADP)

Online members of a benefits forum have received backdated payments between £5,000 and nearly £12,000 following the DWP's recent adjustment to the definition of "social support" for PIP

The Severe Disability Group (SDG) is being set up by the DWP to help identify claimants with the most severe and permanent conditions

Last month, Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work Mims Davies confirmed that those claiming Universal Credit with LCW (limited capability for work) could potentially face sanctions going forward

The DWP was ruled to have got the law wrong when deciding the points PIP claimants could get for the activity of “engaging with other people face to face” during their PIP assessment

The benefits department confirmed in a written statement that there are no "medical consultations" as part of the application process for PIP or ESA - but there is an assessment which needs to be conducted

According to research from Policy in Practice and Money Saving Expert (MSE), Attendance Allowance is one of the "most underclaimed" benefits with around 1.1million people in the UK eligible to claim but not

Due to the criteria of PIP, it means that a broad range of conditions and disabilities can make you eligible to claim and this includes a whole list of musculoskeletal conditions

Currently, Universal Credit claimants who have health conditions or disabilities have to undergo a work capability assessment (WCA) to decide whether they're capable of working and if they're eligible for cash top-ups - these payments are worth £390

In July 2019, the Supreme Court handed down a judgment called the "MM Judgement" and this changed the way the DWP considers the definition of "social support" regarding its assessment of the Daily Living Component of PIP

One disability benefit you can claim from the DWP is Attendance Allowance and this is paid to Brits over the state pension age who need help day-to-day due to their illness or disability

The Department for Work and Pensions pays out £100 a week to those who meet certain criteria