00:00The costs of personal independence payment have almost doubled in the last five years
00:04since the year before the pandemic. If that carried on then the whole future of the system
00:12would be in doubt. So we're making changes now to make sure that it is sustainable long term
00:18so that those who depend on it, and it's a large number of people who will continue to depend on
00:23it, will be confident that it can be there for the time that they need it. What we said yesterday is
00:30that in order to be eligible for PIP you'll need to score at least four points on one of the 10
00:37daily living activities that the criteria set out. Now there are some of those descriptors
00:44that only count for two points. If you only score on one of those in all of the activities,
00:50or fewer than one, none at all, then you won't be eligible in the future. If you score
00:56more than one, and indeed if you score on some of the descriptors which attract more than
01:01two points, four, then you will be eligible. And so what we're doing is making sure that
01:08more severely impaired people will continue to be able to claim and receive this benefit in cash
01:17meeting their needs. Less severely impaired people, some of those will not. The key thing
01:24is that the changes we're making will make this benefit sustainable for the long term.
01:31Lots of people really need it. We don't want to put its future at risk.
01:37The changes that we're making will secure it for the long term.
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