Personal Independence Payment
(asked on 9th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many personal independence payments have been claimed since introduction; how many of those claims have been processed; and, of those, how many are being paid to recipients of the disability living allowance which preceded personal independence payments.
The requested information is in the table below. These statistics are available from the Personal Independence Payment statistics home page and will next be updated on 18 March 2015.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims registered, cleared and awards in payment – at 31 October 2014
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All PIP claims registered, of which: | 669,200 |
New claims | 592,900 |
Reassessment Claims | 76,300 |
All PIP claims cleared, of which: | 382,000 |
New claims | 352,100 |
Reassessment claims | 29,900 |
All PIP awards in payment, of which: | 207,500 |
New Claims | 184,500 |
Reassessment claims | 23,000 |
Notes:
Source, DWP statistical release, published 17 December 2014 and Stat-Xplore.
Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
Figures are for claims from people under the normal rules and special rules for those who are terminally ill.
“Reassessment claims” are claims to PIP from those who were entitled to Disability Living Allowance.