Personal Independence Payment
(asked on 30th August 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of claimants known to her Department who applied for personal independence payments but died with six months of making their application.
This question was answered on 9th September 2024
Table 1 shows the number of claimants who died within 6 months of their PIP application per year up to 2023, the last year for which complete data is available.
Table 1
Year of PIP Application | Number of Claimants who died within 6 months of PIP application |
2014 | 11,800 |
2015 | 12,000 |
2016 | 12,300 |
2017 | 12,400 |
2018 | 12,200 |
2019 | 12,500 |
2020 | 12,100 |
2021 | 13,000 |
2022 | 12,600 |
2023 | 11,300 |
Notes:
- This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision;
- Figures are for England and Wales only;
- These figures include claims made under normal rules and special rules for end of life;
- Volumes are rounded to the nearest 100.