Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what evidence his Department requests in order to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
DWP does not request nor obtain evidence to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid.
The Department does monitor levels and trends in short- and long-term sickness absence across all types of sickness absence recorded on DWP’s own HR data system, including short- and long-term sickness absence generally that may be attributed to Covid, but we do not receive any personal data that will help assess IHR applications.
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in his Department in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) the UK have applied for ill-health retirement as a result of long covid in each of the last three years.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
DWP does not request nor obtain evidence to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid.
The Department does monitor levels and trends in short- and long-term sickness absence across all types of sickness absence recorded on DWP’s own HR data system, including short- and long-term sickness absence generally that may be attributed to Covid, but we do not receive any personal data that will help assess IHR applications.
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in his Department in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) the UK have been awarded (i) upper and (ii) lower tier level ill-health retirement when applying as a result of long covid in each of the last three years.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
DWP does not request nor obtain evidence to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid.
The Department does monitor levels and trends in short- and long-term sickness absence across all types of sickness absence recorded on DWP’s own HR data system, including short- and long-term sickness absence generally that may be attributed to Covid, but we do not receive any personal data that will help assess IHR applications.
Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) The desperate state of the NHS exacerbates this problem. - Speech Link
2: Lord Skidelsky (XB - Life peer) So better pensions cannot be the explanation for the spurt in inactivity. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) My noble friend Lord Bridges of Headley then wrote to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who - Speech Link
4: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) It then became the national employment panel in the Department for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) waiting list quadrupled in two years, and, by last September, over 22,000 people were waiting for their applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee. - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) and applications from customers about to start a job. - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) We have increased the staff on applications, redeploying 95 staff from wider DWP work. - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) The hard fact is that the UK devotes a smaller percentage of GDP to state pensions and pensioner benefits - Speech Link
5: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) They did the right thing and put away a little extra for their retirement; will the Government now do - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) We hope that that will encourage more applications, and of course, we keep the category of offences under - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Friend’s point about retirement, it is worth knowing that the employee contribution rate to pensions - Speech Link
3: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the shadow Secretary of State. - Speech Link
4: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) We have raised the retirement age. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) It is why, as the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) Joining the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) access benefits and other Government support because they are stuck in an annuity trap, whereby at retirement - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) May I add my warm welcome to my near neighbour, the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) review, and I can reassure her that they represent a relatively small proportion of the total number of applications - Speech Link
2: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) agree with me that while the Conservatives proudly continue to support pensioners in their hard-earned retirement - Speech Link
3: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) I am pleased to be able to say that applications to receive pension credit are currently increasing, - Speech Link
4: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) The Department for Work and Pensions has a staggering 288,000 outstanding PIP claims. - Speech Link
Dec. 11 2023
Source Page: National Insurance number instructions for staffFound: Disabled Persons Tax Credit − Incapacity Benefit − Income Support − Jobseekers Allowance − Retirement
Mentions:
1: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) The Pensions Minister is unavoidably detained in No. 10, so they have wheeled out the old Pensions Minister - Speech Link
2: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) Lady should be aware that pension credit applications were up 75% in the year to May, and we have never - Speech Link
3: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) Lady will be aware that pension credit applications are up 75%. - Speech Link
4: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) May I ask a question about auto-enrolment and pensions? - Speech Link