People who claim Personal Independence Payments could have their benefit stopped due to certain holiday rules.
Claimants who are planning to go abroad for more than four weeks may see their payments stop if they do not inform the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) before leaving. If you change your address, GP surgery, your name or health professional you don't need to tell the DWP and there will be no change in your payments.
But going away for a long period of time may leave you out of pocket. Guidance in 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.”
