Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses

(asked on 23rd May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer on 30 April 2019 to Question 245707, Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses, what criteria is used by Assessment Providers to determine whether a claimant does not satisfy the terminally ill definition.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 7th June 2019

The criteria used by Personal Independence Payment Assessment Providers dealing with claims under Special Rules for Terminal Illness (SRTI) are set out in legislation and are that the claimant: ‘is suffering from a progressive disease and death in consequence of that disease can reasonably be expected within 6 months’.

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