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Personal Independence Payment: Applications

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 21243, tabled on 20 June 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the waiting time is between a personal independence payment (PIP) application being submitted and the applicant's PIP assessment being arranged.

Answered on

23 June 2022

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

Available data on journey times for PIP New Claims is published in Table 1A of Personal Independence Payment statistics to April 2022, published on 14 June 2022 here.

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