Department for Work and Pensions
Overview of Welfare Benefits
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Introduction to PIP
• Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a new disability benefit
• Personal Independence Payment has replaced Disability Living
Allowance (DLA) for new claims from adults aged 16-64
• DLA remains for children up to age 16; and DLA recipients aged 65
or over on 8 April 2013 (day that PIP was introduced)
• PIP helps towards some of extra costs arising from health condition
or disability
• PIP based on how person’s condition affects them, not condition
itself
• Same way as DLA, claimants can get PIP whether in or out of work
• Not means tested or taxed
PIP Toolkit - Quick Guide
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Components and Eligibility
• PIP will be made up of two components –
daily living and mobility
• Each can be paid at standard rate, or
enhanced rate for those with the greatest
needs
• The PIP assessment criteria will consider the
individuals’ ability to carry out a range of
everyday activities
• Individuals will receive a point score for each
activity, depending on how well they can
carry them out and the help they need to do
them
• The total scores for each component
determine whether a component is payable,
and if so, whether at the standard or
enhanced rate
Daily
Living
Mobility
Enhanced
Enhanced
12 points
Standard
Standard
8 points
Not Entitled
Not Entitled
PIP Toolkit – Conditions of Entitlement
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Assessment Criteria
Daily living component (activities 1-10)
Standard rate = 8 points
Enhanced rate = 12 points
Activity
Mobility component (activities 11-12)
Standard rate = 8 points
Enhanced rate = 12 points
Possible
points
Activity
Possible
points
1. Preparing food
0-8
11. Planning and following journeys
0-12
2. Taking nutrition
0-10
12. Moving around
0-12
3. Managing therapy or monitoring a
health condition
0-8
4. Washing and bathing
0-8
5. Managing toilet needs or
incontinence
0-8
6. Dressing and undressing
0-8
7. Communicating verbally
0-12
8. Reading and understanding signs,
symbols and words
0-8
9. Engaging with other people face-toface
0-8
10. Making budgeting decisions
0-6
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PIP Toolkit – Assessment Criteria
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Timetable for PIP replacing DLA
From 28 October, natural reassessment started in Wales,
West Midlands, East Midlands and East Anglia for
• those with fixed period DLA awards coming up for
renewal
• children who turn 16 years old on or after 7 October
2013 (unless they have been awarded DLA under the
Special Rules for terminal illness)
• those where there is a report of a change in the DLA
claimant’s health condition or disability
• existing DLA claimants aged 16-64 who wish to make a
PIP claim.
• From 13 January 2014, reassessment areas extend to
postcodes beginning: DG, EH, TD and ML in southern
Scotland and parts of the borders.
• From 3 February, areas further extend to include
postcodes beginning: CA, DL, HG, LA and YO in the
north of England.
October
2013
January
2014
PIP Toolkit – Reassessing existing DLA claimants
PIP Toolkit – Postcode Map
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Timetable for PIP replacing DLA
Further decisions on extending natural reassessment will be taken
and communicated to the rest of the country in due course and will
be informed by the experience of introducing reassessment in a
gradual way first.
• From October 2015
– DWP begin to invite remaining DLA
claimants to claim PIP who were
aged between 16 and 64 on the day
that PIP was introduced (8 April
2013
October
2015
• Once selected for reassessment, claimants will be asked to claim PIP
– If they do, then their DLA award will normally continue until a decision
on the PIP claim is made
– If they don’t claim PIP then their DLA claim will end
PIP Toolkit – Reassessing existing DLA claimants
PIP Toolkit – PIP checker
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Employment Support Allowance
(ESA)
• ESA was introduced on the 27.10.08
• replaces IB and IS
• help customers with illnesses or disability get back
into work
• work capability and health related assessment
•Assessment phase - ESA50 and Work Capability
Assessment completed.
•Support Group
•Work Related Activity Group
•Disputes
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Universal Credit
Current system
Income related JSA
Income related ESA
Income Support (including SMI)
Working Tax Credits
Child Tax Credits
Housing Benefit
Universal Credit
Disability Living Allowance
Personal Independence Payment
Pension Credit
… to include support for housing
and children
Child Benefit, Carer’s Allowance (will remain)
Council Tax Benefit (Localised Council Tax Schemes)
Contributory JSA and ESA (conditionality rules changing)
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£500
A simpler system with clear
work incentives
£300
£400
Universal Credit: lone parent
with two children
£200
Total in-pocket
income
£100
200
£0
100
Universal Credit
payment
0
100
£100
Department for Work & Pensions
£200
£300
£400
£500
£600
£700
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Job Seekers Allowance
Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) is at least £57.35 a week
to help you while you look for work.
How much you get depends on your circumstances and
the type of JSA you qualify for.
To qualify for JSA you usually have to be:
18 or over (but below State Pension age)
able and available for work
meet the other rules for eligibility
When you apply for JSA, you must go to an interview to
complete your claim.
You must go to a Jobcentre (usually every 2 weeks or
when asked) to show how you’ve been searching for a
job to keep getting JSA. This is known as ‘signing on’
Income Support
To qualify for Income Support you must be all of the
following:
between 16 and Pension Credit qualifying age,
pregnant, or a carer, or a lone parent with a child under 5
or, in some cases, unable to work because you’re sick or
disabled,
you have no income or a low income working less than 16
hours a week (and your partner works no more than 24
hours a week),
living in England, Scotland and Wales - there are different
rules for Northern Ireland,
You can claim Child Tax Credit if you claim Income
Support and have children.
State Retirement Pension (SRP)
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A contributory, taxable pension, Paid for life
Complete a BR1 form
The earliest age you can draw your State Pension is:
Women born before 6 April 1950 – age 60
Women born after 6 April 1950 - the age at which women reach State Pension age will rise
gradually between 2010 and 2020 until it becomes 65
Men born before 6 April 1959 – age 65
Men and Women born after 6 April 1959 – the age at which those reach State Pension
age will rise gradually between 2024 and 2046 until it becomes 68
SRP can be deferred
Back date from 3 months to 12 months
State Pension e-Service was introduced on the 20.03.2006 to enable customers to complete
and submit an on line claim to State Pension
The maximum SRP you can receive is 30 years
To receive a full basic State Pension men and women need 30 qualifying years
If you don’t have enough qualifying years for a full pension, you may get a reduced one
(1/30th for each year that you have paid. eg 6 qualifying years will get you 6/30th of the full
rate)
Pension Credit (PC)
• Non contributory, non taxable, income related
entitlement for people over women’s state pension
age
• Made up of either or both elements (Guarantee credit
women’s state pension age to 65 and Savings credit
over 65)
• Gateway to other benefits and services
• Customers can receive additional premiums if
DLA/AA are in payment
• Complete a PC1 form and any additional forms if
need be.
• Back date for up to 3 months
Winter Fuel Payment
• non
contributory, non taxable, single yearly payment
•For customers over women’s state pension age.
normally living in great Britain or northern Ireland
• WFP is sent out automatically during Nov/Dec
• customer without any benefits in payment will be mail
shot if not phone 08459151515
Attendance Allowance
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Non- contributory and not income related
Paid for as long as customer satisfies the condition of entitlement
unless review date set
Award based on condition and limitations
For customers over 65 years of age with disabilities or restrictions for
over 6 months
Unless special rules apply
For people who are in need of support from another person or find it
difficult to do certain tasks throughout the day and or night
Gateway to other benefits/services
Complete an AA1
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Questions?
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