Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

(asked on 18th April 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 18 March 2019 to Question 230077 on Personal Independence Payment, what steps she is taking to identify the reasons for claimants failing to attend assessments.


Answered by
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Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 30th April 2019

If a claimant fails to attend an assessment the Assessment Provider shares any reasons provided by the claimant with DWP.

If the case is a New Claim no further enquiries are made unless where a case is disallowed a Mandatory Reconsideration is requested, in which case, further enquiries are made to establish if there was “good reason” for the claimant Failing to Attend.

If the case is a PIP Reassessment or an Award Review and the claimant fails to attend the case is referred to a Case Manager to consider the impact on benefit already in payment and further enquiries are made to establish reasons for non attendance.

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