Personal Independence Payment

(asked on 8th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Personal Independence Payment assessors have been disciplined for making misleading reports on the basis of which decisions were made that were later overturned by a tribunal, in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Baroness Buscombe Portrait
Baroness Buscombe
This question was answered on 18th January 2018

Decisions on entitlement to Personal Independent Payment are made by DWP Case Managers not the Assessment Provider. When a decision is overturned at appeal it does not necessarily mean the original decision was wrong. Many claimants provide additional written evidence not available to the original DWP Case Manager.

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