Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham Yardley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with (a) leukaemia, (b) myeloma, (c) hodgkin’s lymphoma and (d) non-hodgkin’s lymphoma have successfully appealed against a decision not to award personal independence payment.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Since Personal Independence Payment (PIP) was introduced up to June 2018, there have been:
(a) 60 successful appeals against a decision not to award PIP by people with a primary disabling condition of leukaemia,
(b) 30 successful appeals against a decision not to award PIP by people with a primary disabling condition of myeloma,
(c) 20 successful appeals against a decision not to award PIP by people with a primary disabling condition of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and
(d) 40 successful appeals against a decision not to award PIP by people with a primary disabling condition of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Data has been rounded to the nearest 10.
Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.
The appeals may include decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham Yardley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the health condition of fatigue is assessed by the personal independence payments assessment.
Answered by Sarah Newton
With the exception of claims made under special rules for the terminally ill, the assessment for Personal Independence Payment is on the basis of the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability, not the health condition or disability itself.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham Yardley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with (a) leukaemia, (b) myeloma ,(c) hodgkin’s lymphoma and (d) non-hodgkin’s lymphoma are in receipt of personal independence payments.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Department publishes a range of detailed statistics for Personal Independence Payment (PIP on Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.
These statistics include monthly caseloads (claims in payment) for claimants of PIP broken down by disability including leukaemia, myeloma, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham Yardley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with (a) leukaemia, (b) myeloma, (c) hodgkin’s lymphoma and (d) non-hodgkin’s lymphoma have (i) been reassessed from disability living allowance to personal independence payments and (ii) received a reduced rate of award.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Department publishes a range of detailed statistics for Personal Independence Payment (PIP on Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.
These statistics include monthly caseloads (claims in payment) for claimants of PIP broken down by disability including leukaemia, myeloma, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham Yardley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the draft Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of options for an automatic process for migrating claimants from ESA to Universal Credit.
Answered by Lord Sharma
Our migration processes will be co-designed with stakeholders, to ensure that we have listened and understood claimants’ experiences. We will be introducing processes that work well for everyone.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham Yardley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the draft Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018, what process her Department undertook to decide on the period of one month as the default amount of time anticipated between a migration notice and a deadline day for the purposes of managed migration to Universal Credit.
Answered by Lord Sharma
Our priority during the managed migration process is to ensure a smooth transition with continuous support. That is why we have designed the draft regulations with the flexibility and fail-safes necessary to protect vulnerable claimants.
The draft regulations suggest a minimum one month period between the migration notice and deadline day. However, there is flexibility for a longer period to be given and to extend any given deadline, if it is identified that certain claimants require longer timescales to make a claim.
Similarly, a claimant may request an extension for completing their Universal Credit claim, as long as they have a good reason for doing so. There is no limit on the number of times that a claimant may ask to extend the deadline for making the UC claim providing they have a good reason for doing so.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham Yardley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department will develop new guidance for officials in her Department on the application of good reason to requests to extend the deadline day for the purposes of managed migration.
Answered by Lord Sharma
As with other legislative changes, the Department will be publishing guidance for staff on the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018. This guidance will include advice on the application of the good reason provision.