PIP claims - first official statistics released.

SlimmingSusan

rogerblack wrote: »

Making some possibly unwarranted assumptions - as there are no published statistics.
The intended aim of PIP over DLA is to reduce the expenditure by 20%.
In 2010, new claims were being awarded DLA at the average rate which about equalled the high rate care rate - about todays equivalent of 80 pounds.

About 45% of new claims for DLA eventually resulted in an award.
Around 37% of PIP are - which is about smack on 80%.
This implies the average award for PIP - if everything is going to plan - is again around 80 pounds.

Of the 220K new claims for PIP - for those not terminally ill - it seems likely that 80K or so will eventually get PIP.

80K * 30 weeks * 80 pounds = 200 million pounds.
By delaying decisions about those least able to cope.

Well I put that statistic up in the North West of England, as have been awarded the 80 quid a week, gosh Trickledom, I never even considered that I would be awarded a higher rate as a coper than the mother who has destroyed my life, she is on the lower rate of AA, I am now on the enhanced daily living rate of PIP, yet have been struggling with her disabled demands for many years.