Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pensions

(asked on 20th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications for payments under the (a) War Pensions and (b) the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme were made in each year from 2010.


Answered by
Leo Docherty Portrait
Leo Docherty
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
This question was answered on 25th January 2022

The number of disablement claims registered under the War Pension Scheme (WPS) and the number of injury/illness claims registered under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) in each financial year from 2009-10 to 2020-21 is presented in Table 1.

Table 1: Registered Disablement1 claims under the War Pension Scheme and Registered Injury/Illness claims under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, by financial year2, numbers- 1 April 2009 – 31 March 2021

Financial Year

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

War Pension Scheme

13,819

12,330

11,840

11,878

12,149

11,043

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme3,4

5,302

6,527

7,305

7,774

8,699

8,964

Financial Year

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

Total

War Pension Scheme

10,496

9,065

8,998

8,865

8,441

4,774

123,968

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme3,4

9,246

9,087

9,457

8,842

8,059

5,300

94,562

Source: War Pension Computer System (WPCS) and Compensation and Pension System (CAPS)

1. Disablement claims include both First and Second/Subsequent claims.

2. By financial year of claim registered.

3. Injury/Illness claims registered by the service person. Survivors’ Claims are not included in this response.

4. These figures exclude registered events which end up being cancelled or withdrawn. However, there were 1,703 registered initial injury/illness claims which were pending as at 31 March 2021, many of which may end up being removed.

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