Personal Independence Payment – second draft assessment criteria
The second draft of the Personal Independence Payment assessment criteria reflected much of the feedback we received in response to our initial draft and we believe that it enables a fairer, more accurate assessment of an individual’s ability to participate.
We then ran a formal consultation which began in January 2012 asking for views on the second draft of the criteria, our initial proposals on weightings and thresholds and the latest draft of the regulations.
Second draft of the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Assessment) regulations
- Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Assessment) second draft regulations (142KB)
- RTF version - Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Assessment) second draft regulations (517KB) RTF
- Large print – Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Assessment) second draft regulations (186KB)
- Audio – Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Assessment) second draft regulations
- British Sign Language – Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Assessment) second draft regulations (YouTube)
Second draft of assessment criteria – explanatory note
- Second draft of assessment criteria – explanatory note (433KB)
- RTF version - Second draft of assessment criteria – explanatory note (2MB) RTF
- Easy read – About the Personal Independence Payment assessment – what people told us (882KB)
- Large print – second draft of assessment criteria – explanatory note (502KB)
- Audio – second draft of assessment criteria – explanatory note
- British Sign Language – second draft of assessment criteria – explanatory note (YouTube)
Assessment thresholds – consultation now closed
Our 15 week formal consultation ran from 16 January 2012 to 30 April 2012 to seek further views from disabled people and their organisations on the latest drafts of the assessment criteria, regulations and our proposals for weightings and thresholds.
The consultation has now closed and we are currently reviewing the responses and considering what further changes may be needed to the assessment criteria. Our formal response to the consultation and final draft regulations will be published later in 2012.
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.
