DWP PIP: Six changes coming in 2025 - everything you need to know
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to introduce some changes to the disability benefit Personal Independence Payment (PIP) next year. In the UK, around 3.6million people claim PIP and the money is used to help with the added costs of having a disability or health condition. There has been a lot of public discussion around the benefit over the last year after the previous Tory government announced major reform plans for it in a bid to reduce spending on the welfare system.
According to the latest DWP statistics, around 230,000 people filed their first PIP claim between August and the end of October this year. This indicates that around 80,000 applications are made for PIP each month. Labour has since confirmed that it would also be looking into changes for the benefit, however would not be going forward with the former government's plans. Here we have listed some of the changes expected for 2025 - and how they will impact those claiming.
This one isn't a huge change and is, in fact, one that happens each and every year. Some payment dates for PIP will move at the beginning of January as the DWP does not pay benefits on bank holidays. If your PIP is paid on Tuesday, December 31 then you will get your money as normal.
However, if you are due a payment on January 1 - so New Year's Day - then you will get it earlier on December 31 instead. The change will affect those who received their cash four weeks earlier on December 4. Payments due from January 2 will be made as normal, except in Scotland. This is because the New Year celebrations are extended to January, so payments will be landing in accounts earlier at December 31.
