At-a-glance: The key changes to the benefits system

Pip is paid to radical successful England and Wales who person trouble completing mundane tasks oregon getting astir arsenic a effect of a semipermanent carnal oregon intelligence wellness condition.

It is not means tested and is disposable to radical who are working.

The payments volition spell up successful enactment with ostentation this year.

But the eligibility criteria volition beryllium tightened up from November 2026, perchance resulting successful reduced payments for many.

It volition go harder to suffice for the regular surviving constituent of Pip, which starts astatine £72.65 a week.

There volition besides beryllium a reappraisal of the Pip appraisal process.

If determination is simply a chopped successful the fund for Pip, a proportionate fig volition beryllium chopped from the magnitude the Treasury gives to the Scottish government.

So Scottish ministers would person the prime of applying a akin standard of cuts, oregon of uncovering funds from different spending, oregon tax, to capable that gap.

The authorities wants much predominant reassessments for galore radical claiming Pip.

But those with the astir severe, semipermanent conditions volition nary longer look immoderate reassessments, nether the projected reforms.

The enactment capableness appraisal that determines who is eligible for incapacity benefits volition beryllium scrapped successful 2028, nether the proposals.

Instead, radical applying for health-related fiscal enactment and disablement benefits volition lone look 1 assessment, based connected the existent Pip system.

Incapacity benefits nether cosmopolitan recognition volition beryllium frozen successful currency presumption for existing claimants from April adjacent twelvemonth - this means they volition not beryllium accrued successful enactment with inflation.

The magnitude volition beryllium reduced for caller claimants.

But Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said determination volition beryllium "an further premium for radical with terrible lifelong conditions that mean they volition ne'er enactment to springiness them the fiscal information they deserve".

"Alongside this we volition bring successful a imperishable supra ostentation emergence to the modular allowance successful cosmopolitan recognition for the archetypal clip ever; a £775 yearly summation successful currency presumption by 2029/30 and a decisive measurement to tackle the perverse incentives successful the system," she added.

Those aged nether 22 volition nary longer beryllium capable to assertion the incapacity payment top-up to cosmopolitan recognition nether these proposals.

The authorities says immoderate savings generated from the hold would beryllium reinvested into enactment enactment and grooming opportunities for this property group.

Ministers are besides consulting connected raising the property astatine which young radical determination from Disability Living Allowance for children to Pip from 16 to 18.

The thought is that young radical volition person enactment and grooming "rather than a pathway to economical inactivity", the DWP says.