Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses

(asked on 19th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people access disability benefits through Special Rules for Terminal Illness by each terminal illness.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 27th March 2019

The latest available data on disability benefit awards made under Special Rules for Terminal Illness and Normal Rules can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/ .

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.

Special Rules data can be broken down by main disabling condition for Personal Independence Payment including Dementia, however data on the main disabling condition for other disability benefit claims made under Special Rules is not held by the Department.

Normal Rules data can be broken down by main disabling condition for all disability benefits, including Dementia.

Terminal illness is defined in Social Security legislation as: 'a progressive disease where death as a consequence of that disease can reasonably be expected within 6 months'. If a patient is suffering from such an illness they can claim certain benefits under what are termed as 'special rules'.”

The DS1500 sets out the patient’s condition, clinical findings, treatment, date of diagnosis and date of form completion. It is a medical factual report and it is usually valid for 3 years.

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