Personal Independence Payment: Northern Ireland

(asked on 3rd June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the number of claimants known to the Northern Ireland Department for Communities who died after registering a claim for personal independence payments but before receiving a decision on their claim; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
John Penrose Portrait
John Penrose
This question was answered on 11th June 2019

I am aware that DWP recently provided information on the total number of patients who died within six months of their personal independence payment claim being disallowed. The delivery of personal independence payments is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and therefore falls within the remit of the Department for Communities.

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