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Progress with disability and incapacity benefit reforms

Inquiry

One-off evidence session with the Minister for Disabled People. The session follows up issues raised in the Committee’s July 2014 Report on Employment and Support Allowance and Work Capability Allowance. It also looks at progress with implementing Personal Independence Payments since the Committee last questioned the Minister on this in September 2014.

Issues which the session covers include:

ESA/WCAs

Transfer to new contractor for WCA (Maximus)
Progress in tackling backlog in claims and assessments
Findings of the Litchfield 5 year independent review of the WCA (PDF 479KB) (published in November 2014)

PIP

Progress in reducing delays in the PIP claims process, including:

whether Government’s 26 and 16 week targets for assessments have been achieved, and
performance of contracted providers of the PIP assessment

Outcomes for claimants
Findings of the first independent review of the PIP assessment (PDF 1.67MB) (published in December 2014)

Please note that the Committee is not intending to call for written evidence for this inquiry.

Upcoming events

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Past events

Wednesday 28 January 2015

9:30am Public

Progress with disability and incapacity benefit reforms - Oral evidence 28 January 2015

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Contact us

We receive a significant number of emails each day. All requests and invitations are considered but we do not respond directly to everyone. Please be aware, the committee does not look at individual cases or specific complaints.

Email: workpencom@parliament.uk
Address: Work and Pensions Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA