New PIP proposals include paying people for late DWP health assessments

📆 5/5/2023 4:39 PM
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A new report by the Work and Pensions Committee has found that the health assessments system used by people who cannot work or face extra costs due to disability or ill-health to access vital benefits “continues to let down those who rely on it”

One of the suggestions the Committee has proposed is that DWP pays claimants an assessment rate of Personal Independence Payment if the consultation is delayed and takes place outwith Department processing time targets. The current journey time for new PIP claimants is 14 weeks, measured from the point of initial application to decision letter being issued.

The Committee added that some of the suggestions could drive down the high rate of decisions reversed on appeal, which still stands at 69 per cent for PIP. “Many will welcome the abolition of the Work Capability Assessment. The Government’s process improvements, and recognition that the system causes undue stress and hardship, are steps in the right direction.

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