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845399

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date	20/02/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are in receipt of working age disability benefits; and what is their estimate of the number of people who will be in receipt of such benefits following the introduction of planned increases to the state pension age from 65 to (1) 66, (2) 67, and (3) 68.
tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
uin	HL5599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Providing the complete information requested would exceed the word limit for responses to written parliamentary questions. However, the information requested can be found in the latest Fiscal Sustainability Report. I will place a copy of this report in the House Library.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 06/03/2018 17:18:11 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

845400

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the number of women in receipt of working age disability benefits has been affected by the rise in the state pension age from 60 to 65 between 2010 and 2018.
tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
uin	HL5600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The number of women in receipt of the main working age disability benefits, Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP), has not been affected by the rise in state pension age.</p><p> </p><p>New claims for DLA are currently only available for children under the age of 16 since the introduction of PIP on 8 April 2013. However, before the introduction of PIP, DLA had an upper age limit for making a new claim set at the day before a claimant’s 65<sup>th</sup> birthday. This is also the upper age limit to make a new claim for PIP and will rise in line with increases in state pension age.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 23/02/2018 12:31:48 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull