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date	23/10/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Attendance Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the qualifying period for attendance allowance is six months.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	109058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Attendance Allowance provides financial support to severely disabled people who require long-term care or supervision. Although some disabling conditions may appear to be long-term at their onset, this is not always so. The six-month qualifying period helps establish that the disability and the resulting care or supervision needs are of a long-term nature, and ensures the benefit goes to those for whom it is intended.</p><p> </p><p>When awarding a claim, the Decision Maker will look at whether, and for how long, the severely disabled person has required the necessary level of care or supervision before the date of claim, and consider whether some or all of the qualifying period has already been completed.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For people who have a progressive disease and are not expected to live longer than another six months, there is no requirement to meet the 6 month qualifying period.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 26/10/2017 08:42:07 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

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date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to reform the work capability assessment.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	5406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>We have consulted on reforms to the Work Capability Assessment as part of the Improving Lives Green Paper, and have committed in our manifesto to building more personalised and tailored employment support to help disabled claimants and those people with health conditions return to work where appropriate. We will set out our plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 20/07/2017 13:54:32 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis