Personal Independence Payment: Telephone Services

(asked on 28th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long the average wait-time is for a caller to be put through to a phone operator on the personal independence payment helpline.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 3rd February 2020

The average wait time for calls to the Personal Independence Payment helplines in December 2019 is shown in the table below in the format of hours:minutes:seconds.

December 2019

Average Speed of Answer

PIP Enquiries

00:12:58

PIP Reassessment Enquiries

00:11:39

PIP New Claims

00:01:53

PIP New Claims Special Rules for Terminally Ill

00:02:47

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