There are several changes in circumstances people receiving Personal Independence Payments (PIP) must tell the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) about or risk losing their benefit entitlement and having regular payments paused or stopped.
Changing your name, doctor, health professional or address do not need to be reported to the DWP and will have no impact on your payments or your award.
However, leaving the country or planning to leave the country for a period of more than four weeks, even for just a holiday, may affect entitlement.
Guidance in the 2024 edition of the PIP Handbook on GOV.UK states: “This change may affect the claimant’s entitlement to PIP.
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