Asked by: Jo Churchill (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel claimed the Armed Forces Independence Payment in each year (a) before 6 April 2005 and (b) from 6 April 2005.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
The Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP) was not introduced until 8 April 2013. The number of currently serving Armed Forces personnel who claimed AFIP in each Financial Year since that date is set out below:
Financial Year | AFIP Claimants |
2013-14 | 36* |
2014-15 | 5 |
2015-16 | 7 |
2016-17 | 6 |
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Total | 54 |
*The higher number of claimants in Financial Year 2013/14 includes those who were eligible to claim retrospectively from the date of inception of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme on 6 April 2005.
AFIP only becomes payable once an individual leaves the Armed Forces and is in receipt of a Guaranteed Income Payment of 50% or more, under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme.