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Updated 8 June 2026

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This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/timms-review-of-personal-independence-payment-run-a-workshop/participant-information-sheet

We are looking forward to hosting you for our Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) workshop. This sheet tells you more about why we are holding the workshop and what it is about.

What is the Timms Review?

The government launched the Timms Review of PIP last year.

PIP is a non-means tested cash benefit. PIP supports many people with the extra costs of a Disability or long-term health condition.

The Timms Review is the first full review of PIP. It aims to ensure that:

  • PIP is fair and fit for the future in a changing world
  • PIP helps support Disabled people to achieve better health, higher living standards and greater independence, including through participating in the community or employment

Who is involved in the Timms Review?

It is important that lived experience is at the heart of the Timms Review. The government is committed to a Review that is shaped with Disabled people and is not simply about them. The Timms Review is being co-produced with Disabled people, the organisations that represent them, carers, clinicians, experts, MPs and others. By joining this workshop, this includes you!

The Review is led by 3 co-chairs and a steering group. They bring experience across areas including welfare policy, accessibility, advocacy, co-production, governance, and leadership within Disabled People’s Organisations. Almost all members have lived experience of Disability or long-term health conditions. The steering group set the strategic direction for the work, oversee the programme of evidence gathering and engagement, including workshops like this one, and develop recommendations.

Why are we holding this workshop?

It is very important to the steering group that the Review hears from many different perspectives. The six-part evidence and engagement programme is designed to support people to take part in ways that work for them.

The programme includes:

  • a call for evidence 
  • existing data and research
  • new quantitative survey research
  • workshop in a box
  • evidence sessions with experts
  • deliberative events (more detailed discussions on options and solutions)

This workshop will cover some topics that the steering group wants to know more about. The Timms Review steering group want to base their recommendations from a range of lived, living and learned experience. They want to hear from a wide range of voices, including the most marginalised communities. They believe this is essential to providing a PIP offer that is fit for the future and fair for all. This workshop is an opportunity for Disabled people and individuals with direct experience of PIP to shape the Review.

How will our discussion be used?

Following today’s session:

  • facilitators will write up a summary of the discussion which will be shared with the Review
  • this will help the Review’s steering group to make their recommendations and be used to inform the final report

Please note insights from today will be anonymised before sharing so anything you share today will not be attributable to any individual.

Thank you for taking part and sharing your insights and experiences with the Timms Review.

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