Personal Independence Payments (PIP) claimants are being warned they risk seeing changes to their payments if they fail to notify authorities about key changes this summer.
Anyone planning a trip abroad is warned not they must take action to inform the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of their travel plans. It comes as Government officials have laid out advice on a number of circumstances PIP claimants must tell the DWP about or risk losing their benefit entitlement and having regular payments paused or stopped.
Among those key updates which must be reported is leaving the country or planning to leave the country for a period of more than four weeks. Even if your trip is just a holiday, it is seen as a change which may affect entitlement.
The 2023/24 edition of the PIP Handbook on GOV.UK states: “This change may affect the claimant’s entitlement to PIP. We will need to know the date the claimant is leaving the country, how long they are planning to be out of the country, which country they are going to and why they are going abroad.”
If you're planning a trip the advice is to inform officials at DWP on 0800 121 4433 to report a change of circumstances - lines are open from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Other key updates that don't need to be reported, however, include changing your name, doctor, health professional or address. They do not need to be reported to the DWP and will have no impact on your payments or your award.
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