Alan Brown – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alan Brown on 2016-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 13 April 2016 to Question 32963, how many people who have personal independence payments with enhanced mobility payments have initial awards of (a) three years or less and (b) greater than three years before further re-assessment is required.
Justin Tomlinson
The review date is set at 12 months before the end of the award so there are no changes to the benefit paid before the re-assessment takes place.
As at 31st January 2016, there were 218,270 claims in payment with enhanced mobility payments, of which;
(a) 112,340 had an initial award that had a review date of three years or less
(b) 105,960 had an initial award that had a review date of greater than three years.
This is unpublished data and, as such, it does not meet the quality standard required for official statistics publication. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.
Notes;
1) The source of the data is the PIP computer system.
2) Figures are correct as at 31st January 2016 and have been rounded to the nearest 10.
3) Figures include both new claims and reassessment claims, and normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claims.
4) Figures are for Great Britain.
5) We have provided data based on when the initial award’s review date was set to be, as this is the point at which the claimant would be invited to undertake an award review (i.e. further reassessment of their claim). The award review date occurs exactly 12 months before the initial claim end date.
