Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit: Mining
(asked on 22nd February 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of former miners have had an application for industrial injuries disablement benefits rejected over the last 10 years.
The table below shows the number of assessments by outcome for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) for people whose Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code on which the IIDB claim is based, is ‘Mining and Quarrying’ over the last 10 years from 2013/14 to 2022/23.
| Number | Percentage |
Accepted - payable | 8,450 | 25% |
Accepted - not payable | 4,200 | 12% |
Accepted – no loss of faculty | 0 | 0% |
Disallowed | 19,570 | 57% |
Withdrawn | 490 | 1% |
Not applicable / Unknown | 1,570 | 5% |
Total | 34,290 | 100% |
Individual outcome categories do not sum to total due to rounding.
Information on Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) assessments by decision type and Standard Industrial Classification code can be found on Stat-Xplore.
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