Policy paper

Personal Independence Payment – initial draft assessment criteria

Initial draft regulations and explanatory note for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment criteria.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 9 May 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Assessment) draft regulations

PDF, 199 KB, 15 pages

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Large print – Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Assessment) draft regulations

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Technical note: initial draft of assessment criteria

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Easy read: initial draft assessment criteria technical note

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Large print – Iinitial draft of assessment criteria – technical note

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Details

Ministers committed to publishing initial draft regulations for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment criteria and the required period conditions to inform discussion at Commons Committee stage of the Welfare Reform Bill. To provide context to our early development work and the draft assessment regulations, we also published an explanatory technical note alongside the draft regulations in May 2011. This outlined our plans for refinement and testing of the initial draft criteria.

We sought views on our initial proposals for the draft assessment criteria between 9 May and 31 August 2011. We considered the feedback we received on how well the initial proposals worked and if they could be improved, alongside the findings from the summer testing. Changes made to the criteria as a result of refinement and testing were reflected in a second draft of the assessment criteria and regulations, which we published on 14 November 2011.

We have also published Audio versions of the initial draft assessment criteria technical note

Initial draft assessment criteria technical note: British Sign Language films

Initial draft assessment criteria technical note: British Sign Language films

Published 9 May 2011