Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses

(asked on 25th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 Feb 2019 to Question 209781 on Personal Independence Payment, what the average length of time was between a claimant receiving an award under special rules for terminal illness and initially registering that claim under normal rules.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 2nd April 2019

The median time between registration and clearance for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims that were initially registered under Normal Rules but were awarded under Special Rules for Terminal Illness is 34 working days for all claims cleared between April 2013 to the end of January 2019. For reference, the clearance time from the point a claim changes from Normal Rules to Special Rules for Terminal Illness to clearance under Special Rules for Terminal Illness is 3 working days.

Source: PIP ADS

Notes:

  • Figures have been rounded to the nearest working day, i.e. Monday to Friday (including bank holidays).

  • This data includes both new claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reassessment claims.

  • The median time is the middle value if you were to order all the times within the distribution from lowest value to highest value. The median is presented here instead of the mean because the mean can be unduly affected by outlying cases (e.g. cases were the person has been hard to reach due to being in prison, hospital, failed to attend the assessment on numerous occasions etc.)

  • The 'Registration to DWP decision (end to end)' clearance time is measured as the average time between the date of registration of the claim and the date of the DWP decision to either award or disallow the claim. It does not include claims that were withdrawn by the claimant or claims that were disallowed by DWP pre-referral to the Assessment Providers (e.g. for failure to meet basic eligibility criteria).

  • This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.
  • Figures are for Great Britain only.

  • Figures are correct as at 31st January 2019.

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