Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses
(asked on 16th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time is for processing a claim for personal independence payment when the claimant is terminally ill.
This question was answered on 22nd June 2015
The average (median) end-to-end clearance time for terminally ill claimants claiming personal independence payment (PIP) is 6 working days in April 2015, for both new claims and reassessment claims. Data on PIP claim clearance times is in the data tables published alongside the latest PIP statistical release:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2015.