Reform Policies that are not strictly true

Wibbles

https://www.reformparty.uk/making-welfare-work-document.pdf

PIP doesn't technically have "indefinite" awards anymore - that was DLA.

DLA had 71% indefinite awards at one point.

For PIP, the closest thing is an "ongoing award" - no end date, with a light-touch review at the 10-year point.

There are two ways to count it:

1. New claims - very rare:
Ongoing awards accounted for just 6.9% of new claims in 2025 according to a Z2K analysis of DWP Stat-Xplore data. After PIP was introduced lifetime awards were abolished.

2. Total caseload - much higher because they accumulate:
DWP statistics put total PIP caseload at 3.7m in England and Wales, rising to 3.9m by Oct 2025.

Of that caseload:

• ∼40-45% have a long award of 5 years or more - this includes both long fixed-term awards and ongoing awards. DWP figures show 1.8m (45%) of the 3.9m have been granted awards lasting five years or beyond, and other releases put it at 1.5m have an ongoing award lasting five years or more, or over 1.6m (44%) of all 3.7m have been issued with an award lasting five years or longer.

Pure ongoing / 10-year light-touch awards alone are a smaller subset of that 44-45%. DWP has not published a single headline % for just ongoing vs fixed in the quarterly bulletin, but all ongoing awards are included in that 5yr+ group.

If you meant "awards that don't end after 2-3 years", the answer is around 44-45% of all current claimants have 5yr+ / ongoing awards, but only about 7% of new awards are given as true ongoing awards today.

ChrisR777

And sadly the truth doesn't come into it. Their fervent supporters won't look beyond a few lazy headlines.