Proposed cuts could potentially target new claims and end-of-award reviews for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), the Department for Work and Pensions has suggested.

The department is exploring ways to curb the escalating expenditure on the disability benefit, which currently supports approximately 3.5 million claimants.

Suggestions under consideration in the Modernising Support for Independent Living: The Health and Disability Green Paper include replacing PIP cash payments with vouchers,…