Personal Independence Payment

(asked on 10th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many PIP2 forms were (a) completed and returned within the four week deadline, (b) completed and returned outside the four week deadline and (c) never returned in the last 12 months.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 18th October 2017

473,000 claimants under Normal Rules returned their PIP2 questionnaire within 28 days and 350,000 claimants returned their questionnaire outside 28 days. A further 129,000 claimants were not recorded as having returned a PIP2 questionnaire. The status of claims as 'Normal Rules' is shown as at the point of the registration. It is possible for claims to transition between Normal/Special Rules during the course of the claimant journey. Special Rules for the Terminally Ill claimants are not required to complete PIP2 questionnaires.

It should be noted that a PIP claimant is given one calendar month from the day after the date of issue to return the PIP2 questionnaire. Claimants who require additional time to complete and submit their PIP2 questionnaire are able to do so where that is reasonably required. The letter accompanying the PIP2 encourages claimants to contact the Department if they require more time.

Notes:

  1. Normal Rules only. Special Rules for the Terminally Ill claimants are not required to complete PIP2 questionnaires.
  2. The status of claims as 'normal rules' is shown as at the point of the registration. It is possible for claims to transition between normal/special rules and new claims/reassessments during the course of the claimant journey.
  3. The 'Issue of Part 2 to return of Part 2' clearance time is measured as the time between the date the Part 2 form is sent to the claimant and the date the form is received back by the Department as recorded on Department systems.
  4. Unpublished data which may be subject to revision and should be used with caution.
  5. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000.
  6. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
  7. Great Britain only.
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