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<p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is claimed by people with a range of health
conditions and disabilities, many of which are degenerative or life limiting and the
Department treats the death of any claimant sympathetically. The cause of death of
claimants to PIP is not collated centrally by the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Table
1 below shows for each month from March 2019 – May 2019 and March 2020 – April 2020:
(a) The number of PIP claimants with entitlement to PIP who died having had entitlement
on the last day of each month.</p><p>(b) The total number of PIP claims with entitlement
on the last day each month.</p><p>(c) The percentage of claimants entitled to PIP
who died in each month which is calculated by dividing (a) the number of claimant
deaths in each month by (b) the total number of PIP claims with entitlement in the
same month.</p><p> </p><p>Note that April 2020 is the latest month for which data
is available.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Summary of PIP claimants with entitlement
who died from March 2019 – May 2019 and March 2020 – April 2020</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td
rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Mar-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Apr-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>May-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mar-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Apr-20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a)
Number of PIP Claimant Deaths</p></td><td><p>4,650</p></td><td><p>4,580</p></td><td><p>4,460</p></td><td><p>5,880</p></td><td><p>6,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b)
Total PIP Claims with entitlement</p></td><td><p>2,098,090</p></td><td><p>2,113,170</p></td><td><p>2,134,400</p></td><td><p>2,455,300</p></td><td><p>2,485,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c)
Death rate of PIP claimants with entitlement</p></td><td><p>0.22%</p></td><td><p>0.22%</p></td><td><p>0.21%</p></td><td><p>0.24%</p></td><td><p>0.25%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><strong>Source: PIP ADS and Customer Information System and Stat-Xplore</strong></p><p>
</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>This is unpublished data. It should be used
with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</li><li>PIP data includes normal
rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and is for both new claims
and DLA reassessment claims.</li></ul><ul><li>Data for the number of claimant deaths
has been sourced from the PIP ADS and the Customer Information System and data for
the number of total PIP claims with entitlement has been sourced from Stat-Xplore.</li><li>Number
of claimants has been rounded to the nearest 10 and the data for the death rate of
claimants has been rounded to the nearest 0.01%.</li><li>Claimants’ dates of death
are as recorded on the system at 12<sup>th</sup> June 2020 and may be subject to retrospection.</li></ul><ul><li>GB
only</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>Under the Social Security (Notification of Deaths)
Regulations 2012 and s125 of Social Security Administration Act 1992 date of death
is provided to the Department for all registered deaths. Additionally, next of kin
also provide information on the date of death of an individual and this information
is used appropriately in the administration of Departmental benefits.</p>
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