Personal Independence Payment: Preston

(asked on 23rd June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Preston constituency who applied for personal independence payments in (a) December 2014 and (b) January 2015 (i) have had medical assessments and (ii) are waiting for medical assessments.


Answered by
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Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 29th June 2015

The table below shows the number of claimants who registered a Personal Independence Payment claim in the Parliamentary Constituency of Preston in December 2014 and January 2015 who:

· have had an assessment by an assessment provider;

· are still waiting for an assessment by an assessment provider.

December 2014

January 2015

Total number of registrations

60

130

Waiting for an assessment by an assessment provider

0

0

Have had an assessment by an assessment provider

40

100

Withdrawn or disallowed prior to a completed assessment by an assessment provider

20

30

Source: PIP Computer Systems

Note that the figures above relate to:

  • New claim registrations only. There were no DLA reassessment claims registered in these months.
  • Both claims made under special rules for the terminally ill and those under normal rules i.e. not the terminally ill.
  • Claims can be withdrawn by the claimant prior to an assessment by an assessment provider, or disallowed due to non-return of the PIP2 form within the time limit, failure to attend the assessment without good cause or failure of basic eligibility criteria (for example, age criteria, residence and presence).
  • Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
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