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<p>The department is committed to ensuring claimants receive high quality assessments.
We set our assessment providers challenging targets and monitor performance closely
against a range of measures including through independent audit to improve accuracy
and decision making. Contractual remedies are in place if assessment providers fail
to deliver against the service standards.</p><p>Contractual remedies for underperformance
against a range of service levels are recovered through service credit mechanisms
and through deductions of payments (a ‘No Pay’ mechanism). The extent of underperformance
and application of related mechanisms varies significantly and the regularity of such
remedies should not be seen as a measure of overall performance.</p><p>In relation
to the HDAS contract covering Work Capability Assessments, service credits (the contractual
remedy for SC1 – Quality) have been applied in 12 out of the 14 months from June 2018
to July 2019 (the date of the most recent statistical information available).</p><p>In
relation to the Personal Independence Payment contracts, “No Pay” (the contractual
remedy for SC1 – Quality) has been applied in one or more Lots in each month from
June 18 to June 19 (the date of the most recent statistical information available).</p><p>Below
is the breakdown of the totals by Lot:</p><p>Lot 1 – No pay was applied to SC1 in
8 of those months</p><p>Lot 2 – No pay was applied to SC1 in 5 of those months</p><p>Lot
3 – No pay was applied to SC1 in 11 of those months.</p>
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