Updated 1 May 2012
The assessment criteria
Following further development work on the Personal Independence Payment assessment criteria, we revised the initial proposals and produced a second draft. This is significantly different to the first draft published in May 2011 and we believe that it enables a fairer, more accurate assessment of an individual’s ability to participate. Most of the changes made are a direct result of the feedback we received on the first draft. The revised proposals also include our initial views on weightings for the descriptors.
- Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Assessment) second draft regulations (November 2011)
- Second draft of assessment criteria – explanatory note (November 2011)
- Initial draft of the assessment criteria (May 2011)
Assessment thresholds – consultation now closed
On 16 January 2012 we published further details on the assessment criteria, including proposed entitlement thresholds for the benefit, modelling of the likely impact of these and a range of case studies.
To seek further views from disabled people and their organisations and ensure that we get the assessment criteria right, we ran a 15 week consultation from 16 January 2012 to 30 April 2012.
The consultation has now closed and we are currently reviewing the responses and considering what further changes may be needed to the assessment criteria. We will publish a response to the consultation and final draft regulations later this year.
The final regulations will be subject to Parliamentary scrutiny through the "affirmative procedure", which means they must be approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords to become law.
