Information on Incapacity Benefit (IB) reassessments is now published via Stat-Xplore. The following abbreviations are used in these statistics. Information on this can be found on Stat-Xplore. This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2022/esa-work-capability-assessments-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2022. I thought we only needed to put real life examples to explain the descriptors? If the evidence is not available, you cannot advise that the claimant has a Severe Condition and normal filework case control action applies. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. Personal Independence Payment, which can help people with some of the extra costs associated with long-term ill-health or a disability. In November 2020, 2.6m people were receiving ESA or UC* (with some receiving both). The publication covers information on both initial and repeat ESA assessments in Great Britain. #16. Secondly, the changing composition of assessment outcomes over time. Between June 2009 and March 2018 the number of ESA initial WCAs awarded the Support Group each quarter increased from 10,000 to 32,000. DWP had not commented by noon today (Thursday). Conditions are based on evidence provided and may not represent a persons most recent medical condition. Adapting to change and Social interaction remain the main reasons for WRAG allocation (with 15 points or more) this quarter. The ESA Support Group (SG) is for those who are living with severe disabilities or health conditions which makes it unreasonable to require them to engage in work related activities, The ESA Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) is for those claimants who the DWP consider will be capable of work at some time in the future and who they consider can take steps immediately towards moving into work (work related activity). Less than 30% of this group have a record of employment in subsequent years. After the work capability assessment, claims can be placed into one of three outcome categories: Assessment outcomes are based on the DWP decision following the Assessment Provider (AP) recommendation. He said: We have noticed the beginnings of a trend wherein people who already have LCW are not being granted reassessments to determine whether they also have LCWRA. With the suspension of face-to-face assessments, DWP focused on individuals who were more likely to attract a higher benefit award rather than in date order which is usual practice. G1035 If a claimant in work has already been assessed as having LCW or LCWRA, whether for the Of all PIP. The timescale they give is nothing more than a guide, although you can be reassessed anytime from 3 months. The total clearance time therefore includes the time taken to transfer the case to DRT. The median average time taken to clear MRs peaked shortly after to stand at 37 calendar days in May 2014. Note: The numbers of appeals are by claim start date, therefore numbers could increase as more appeals are completed for claims started in the most recent months. Source: Personal Independence Payment statistics. MRs were introduced in October 2013. Many claimants who have been awarded both benefits find themselves in the same position as your partner . News stories, speeches, letters and notices, Reports, analysis and official statistics, Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports. As a result of High Court decision in July 2020, MR has been discontinued for any claimant who, having been found Fit for Work following a WCA would, if they appealed, be paid ESA pending the outcome of that appeal. And also poppy I thought we didnt need evidence? These assessments include new claims and DLA reassessments. Terminal Illness, a health condition that a person will most likely die from. Were going to take this up but wonder if others have seen anything similar. Data on UC WCA outcomes is not discussed here. Hello C , thank you for your message re WCA, & your worsening condition. For claimants allocated to WRAG with 15 points or more, the most common categories for scoring points this quarter were Adapting to change and Social interaction. Source: Stat-Xplore: ESA Work Capability Assessments under Clearance Times for Initial Claims. You can get Personal Independence Payment (PIP) whether youre working or not. Source: Personal Independence Payments tables. Would they refuse to reassess if he had a car accident and broke both legs? The monthly total number of ESA WCAs, including initial assessments for new claims and repeat assessments, has varied between 39,000 and 93,000 each month between April 2013 and March 2020. There was a notable decrease in allocations to the Physical or mental health risk group for claims started from October 2015 onwards. I wonder how long they have stopped reassessments. LCWRA is an ongoing award until a new decision says otherwise. Information on PIP new claims and DLA reassessments include only clearances which award PIP or which disallow PIP following assessment. #15, Just a thought on the last post.when the claimant makes the fore mentioned Journal entry, rather than choosing the radio button A message for my Work Coach choose A Change and it will bypass the Jobcentre and go to a UC Case Manager who tend to be better trained on Benefits than Work Coaches ( tongue not in cheek! Please be aware that they are also extremely busy at the moment." [ Edited: 13 Jan 2022 at 03:01 pm by Ant ] 13 January 2022, 03:21 pm #1 Daphne Administrator rightsnet writer / editor Send message Total Posts: 3284 Joined: 14 March 2014 The timescale they give you is a just a guide and nothing more. Of these, 99.6% had been cleared. Special Rules for Terminal Illness, if a person is living with a terminal illness and a doctor or a medical professional has said they might have less than 6 months to live, they may get benefits at a higher rate or get extra money and start getting payments quicker than usual. DWP would like to hear your views on our statistical publications. This was extended to include other decision types from September 2020. 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(b)there has been a relevant change of circumstances in relation to the claimants physical or mental condition. Data on PIP assessments which were DLA reassessments is not discussed here. Source: Data tables: ESA WCA experimental cohort statistics for initial and repeat ESA assessments, by period of claim start, October 2013 to June 2021. These include the COVID-19 pandemic and the introduction of UC replacing most income-related new claims to ESA. Mental and behavioural disorders were the most common primary health condition at PIP clearances between April 2013 and January 2021. If at filework a HCP feels that enough evidence is available on which a LCWRA in the longer term recommendation can be made, but is unable to make a recommendation based on the Severe Conditions criteria, the advice is that they do not seek to call for exam but instead make a paper-based recommendation that change is not expected in the longer-term. When face to face assessments resumed in May 2021, DWP was able to revert to prioritising WCAs in date order. It is listed on your claim, call and ask, but the maximum is usually 3 years. This badge does not currently apply to the experimental cohort figures or ESA clearance times. #13. The volume of UC WCAs is not shown here. DWP temporarily suspended face-to-face health assessments from 17 March 2020 while paper-based assessments continued. You'll get paid ESA every 2 weeks. There is still too much of the tail wagging the dog in decision making. Zeeta Osborn, from Hastings, has been waiting for a year for a new WCA, but has been told by DWP that it is not currently offering repeat assessments to those already receiving UC, and is only booking assessments for new claimants. on their UC account. Would an appeal be effective here though? There will no doubt be some interlocutory hoops to jump through but its far from impossible. This is a summary of analysis to support Chapter 4 of Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper. Hi Penny1949. Reassessments already present in the system were processed alongside those related to changes in circumstances, where possible. Between 43,000 and 85,000 WCAs were conducted every month to determine awards for ESA from April 2017 to March 2020. He did this without a WCA and determined on his own volition that ESA REg 35 applied. 62% of initial WCA decisions resulted in a Support Group outcome in the quarter to September 2021. Since the introduction of PIP in 2013 the proportion of people awarded an ongoing award or a review period of more than 5 years has increased from 11% in 2014 to 31% in 2020. You can no longer make a new claim for Income Support. Since June 2014 of PIP there have been between 20,000 and 47,000 PIP new claim assessments each quarter that have resulted in Enhanced Daily Living award decisions. (3) The relevant threshold for the purposes of paragraph (2) is the amount that a person would be paid at the hourly rate set out in regulation 11 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999(1) for 16 hours a week. My PIP is until 2023, but it didn't say anywhere on my LCWRA entitlement letter when I would be reassessed for this. The rules that provide for a claimant to be treated as having LCWRA where there is a substantial risk to the health of any person are in the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008, the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013 and the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (and the equivalent regulations in Northern Ireland). The WCA should determine whether a person has limited capability for work and eligibility for the benefit. Those found eligible for ESA are either placed in the WRAG, which offers support in preparing for work, or the SG if they are unable to work or complete work related activity. This is known as Payment Pending Appeal (PPA). If I now understand this right, the one with LCW only has to report a CiC and this must be treated as a request for a supersession, whereas the evidence issue I was referring to above (41(4)) actually only applies to claimants who have had a decision refusing LCW(?). In these statistics, all reconsiderations occurring after the WCA are counted as MRs. For more information on the definition of MR see section 11 of this release and the methodology note. Being found FfW at initial assessment is the primary reason for claimants disputing a decision. #11. If the claimant or their representative needs to be contacted for further evidence then a maximum of two telephone calls should be made. Over the same time, people with less serious short term conditions have claimed ESA or UC* before leaving the benefit shortly after. People with a short-term health condition that limits their ability to work can close their ESA claim before a Work Capability Assessment (WCA). This increase has continued ever since. policy. Read the methodology note for more detailed information on these statistics. The median end-to-end clearance time is a measure from the claim registration date to the final DWP award decision. #12, Welfare rights adviser - Plumstead Community Law Centre, Far from being unable to re- assess, they MUST re- assess, If they refuse to re- assess they will effectively refusing an application for supersession, A refusal to supersede is automatically appealable (R(DLA) 1/03(Wood v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2003] EWCA Civ 53). This may involve sharing this information with relevant authorities to ensure we comply with our policies and legal obligations. There was a discussion or FOI or some such about that a while ago, I think the conclusion was that CHDA simply doesnt have the IT access to initiate assessments, it must come from DWP. She was told last week on her UC online journal a message DNS has seen that DWP are still working on new claims and the reassessments will not be taking place for foreseeable. After 2008, the median end-to-end clearance time generally followed an upward trend, reaching a peak of 192 calendar days in August 2014 falling to 70 days in September 2019. Initially only SG outcomes were possible, the full range of outcomes were available from February 2021. I have two related cases at the moment - both had WCAs done years ago, where one ended up with LCW and the other was refused. The median time between assessments for people in the ESA Work Related Activity Group is shorter, as these people have been assessed as able to get back into work in the future. This had increased to all women under the age of 65 in 2020. #2, Information and advice resources - Age UK. Meanwhile, the Benefits and Work website reported this week that PIP renewals were in a state of chaos, with claimants left terrified that their PIP is suddenly going to stop because a new decision has not been made by the time their award is due to end. If you get the ESA award and you are placed in the Support group, you will get a higher rate of employment and support allowance (ESA) than claimants who are put in the work-related activity group. In the month to January 2022, the monthly median clearance times stood at 15 days. In 2020, at most ages fewer people were receiving working age health related income replacement benefits such as ESA and UC* than in 2015. DWP makes a decision based on all of the available evidence, including the AP recommendation. Sounds more sensible, a bit like ESA and needing evidence of significant worsening Claimants of Universal Credit are usually asked to make an . But the website did say that it had not yet heard of any cases in which a PIP award had been stopped due to a failure to make a new decision. The claimant can dispute a DWP decision by appealing to Her Majestys Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS). Editor, Marcus Herbert, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/coronavirus-update-benefit-reviews-and-reassessments-suspended, https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/76971765#Comment_76971765. and, in a case where no assessment may be carried out by virtue of this paragraph, the claimant is to be treated as not having limited capability for work unless they are treated as having limited capability for work or for work and work-related activity by virtue of regulation 39(6) or 40(5). I was thinking JR was more appropriate looking at it as a failure/neglect to deal with the supersession at all or causing unjustifiable delays in dealing with it. With COVID restrictions and COVID-specific support coming to an end it should not be impossible for the government to grant access to reassessments to those individuals who need them.. After that, SG outcomes have been more common, Initially WRAG was the most common outcome for repeat claims, until October 2012. woodfoxmoss 2 yr. ago. I still wonder whether the claimants have supplied sufficient evidence to trigger the assessment process. #7. The new data presented here includes analysis from: Data tables, which provide more details on the data and analysis presented here, are available online. Multiple referrals are sometimes required before an assessment is completed and a recommendation received. If it were me Id be filling out the sscs1 and digging out the caselaw that MR doesnt apply unless the claimant is told it applies and appealing the refusal to supersede. Receive all the latest news and information about Scope, tell us how we can make the community better, Safeguarding In 2014 and 2015, Support Group decisions increased to 60,000 per quarter before reducing to 40,000 in September 2016. Dont include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details. reduce the burden placed on claimants to continue to produce evidence confirming the impact of a health condition or disability. 1 in 7 working age people receiving PIP in April 2019 were in employment. Filework HCPs should not default to calling a claimant to an assessment if the evidence required to meet the criteria is not available. LCWRA was backdated to March 2020 due to the 3 month rule. When they do refer you for another assessment you will receive a letter onto your journal, a few days later you should receive the forms in the post. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Work and Health Programme, personal support to help people find and keep a job if they are out of work. The impact of this is that some long-term sick and disabled adults, in particular those whose health may have deteriorated over the course of the pandemic, are being denied access to additional financial support and reduced conditionality. Other reasons for being assigned to WRAG (with 15 points or more) are: Upper Limb, Sensory, Continence, and Lower Limb. People in the Support Group and WRAG group on ESA include people who have made a claim to ESA over many different years. The amount paid to a person claiming Universal Credit can be cut by 343 per month if the DWP decides that person must now start preparing to go back to work. Approximately a third of normal rules PIP initial decision awards were given ongoing awards or review periods of more than 5 years in 2019 to 2020. The principles behind the changes to reassessment criteria are to: Disability Rights UK is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England no: 07314865, and a registered charity no: 1138585 (England & Wales). Basically she had told me that my current claim is going through court which I already know and that they wouldnt really be able to reassess me until they make a decision at court as it could go in my favour. The number of Changes of Circumstances has increased every year as more people receive PIP. ICD Group refers to the World Health Organisations International Classification of Diseases (2010) Condition Groups. For reporting purposes, the conditions as recorded on DWP systems have been mapped to reflect as closely as possible the appropriate ICD10 code. If you are new to Internet forums, you might find it useful to read our Easy Guide to Using the Forum. Id be happy to have one at this point just to get it over with, the waiting is the worst part. In 2013 to 2014, 40% of people who left ESA had a record of employment in the following year. People with a disability or long-term health condition. Now DNS has heard of serious backlogs within the WCA system, despite DWPs refusal to publish official WCA figures for claimants claiming UC. The monthly total number of PIP clearances awarded or disallowed following assessment has decreased between July 2016 and April 2021. The number of ESA initial WCAs resulting in Support Group or WRAG decisions reduce from April 2018 due to the replacement of income-related ESA by Universal Credit. 62% of decisions on initial assessments resulted in a Support Group outcome in the latest quarter. For more information of operational easements see the background information note . Rebecca* acts as an appointee for her disabled daughter Jane*. In January 2022 the monthly median clearance time for ESA WCA MRs was 15 days. reduce the need for the Department or CHDA to conduct unnecessary assessments when resource could be better focused. The mandatory reconsideration letter says the reassessment date is in 26 months. The latest release of these statistics can be found in the collection of ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments statistics. PIP Award Reviews are conducted to review the entitlement of people receiving PIP, at the scheduled review date. They have been concentrating on new claims and because of the backlogs of those, they put reviews on hold. Severe functional disability has been the main reason for allocation, being over 50% since January 2016. In the quarter ending June 2009 there were 10,000 ESA initial WCAs resulting in Support Group decisions and 26,000 that resulted in WRAG decisions. From March 2020 the focus was on initial assessments. Mounting evidence of assessment crisis, as DWP halts WCA reassessments By John Pring on 24th February 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen Mounting evidence suggests a crisis within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) systems that assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits. It is run and owned by disabled journalist John Pring and has been from its launch in April 2009. The MR average clearance times is derived using calendar days by calculating the median of the time taken from the date the Benefit Centre (BC) has decided the MR to be valid, having considered any new information, until the date the decision is cleared by the decision maker at the Dispute Resolution Team (DRT). At the MR stage, there are multiple outcomes that refer to whether the Decision Maker (DM) chooses to revise the decision under dispute: In the month to January 2022, 51% of the ESA WCA decisions going to MR were revised. #4, Citizens Advice Calderdale, West Yorkshire. I once managed to find a decision maker who overturned a fit for work determination and replaced it with LCWRA once the evidence was produced. Find out more about those who are exempt on the GOV.UK website. DWP can require people receiving ESA and UC* to be reassessed in a new WCA, known as a repeat WCA. Assessment Provider (AP) may conduct telephone, face-to-face or video assessment, or paper-based assessment and provides recommendation to DWP. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a12777bfced5d2b Mounting evidence suggests a crisis within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) systems that assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits. 20 January 2022, 05:20 pm In most cases your capability for work will be assessed with a Work Capability Assessment before deciding which group you should be in. Like many disabled people, her daughter experiences overwhelming psychological distress during the period of not knowing whether she will lose her support. He gets LCW which is being appealed. These should be documented on an FRR4. At this time, I am unable to refer your case for re-assessment. I just had a case like this. A full list of descriptors for both SG and WRAG groups and a guide to the ESA Work Capability Assessment can be found on the GOV.UK website. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. As per current process only one request for written medical evidence should normally be made and at review only one telephone attempt to chase the evidence is required. Providing that letter is evidence that suggests the change in circumstances so that the criteria in paragraph 4 is met. In 2015, only women aged under 62 would commonly receive working age benefits. Both new (initial) and existing (repeat) ESA claimants have WCA assessments. Face-to-face assessments were resumed in May 2021 and they now take place alongside telephone assessments and a small number of video assessments. Dont worry we wont send you spam or share your email address with anyone. These assessments include new claims and DLA reassessments. In May 2020 telephone assessments were introduced, but initially only SG decisions could be made via telephony channels. But when she received a copy of her daughters assessment report, Rebecca realised it was seriously inaccurate and was likely to lead to her daughter losing her PIP support. Hiya everyone I have been receiving lwrca for 2 years due to chrons disease (I'm 6 stone and quite unwell) however I have heard that after 24 months I'm due for a reassessment am I due one soon? Work Related Activity Group, a group on ESA for people who are assessed as able to get back into work in the future. The proportion of the people who left ESA in 2013 to 2014 and who are in employment in the years after this decreases slightly each year. If someone received assessment papers on another thread confusing and conflicting. 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