Paper Based Assessments

I was talking briefly to someone from NI Advice (Northern Ireland Advice) and while I appreciate you won’t have much NI information I thought I’d share this, if only to get an idea of how, or if, we differ

I was been told that Capita are carrying out about 12.5% paper based assesments here in NI, that’s 1 in 8! Much bigger than I thought. He was also telling me that a significant number of these were disappointing results, he didn’t expand on what he meant by ‘disapointing.’ It was a mobile conversation and I was on a busy footpath at the time!

What are the figures like across the water?

Kevin

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Gordon for the Forums information

My original post on PBA in NI was incorrect

I was doing some calculations the other day, taken from NI government statistics
from Sept/Nov. The figures showed there were a grand total of 24,160 claims for PIP in NI (of those 150 fell under special rules the remainder were a mixture of new claims and DLA to pip reassessments)

Of the 24,160 the DfC confirmed, under a FOI request, that 1970
of the above were paper based assessments which is just a fraction over 8%., not 12.5% as I originally stated. Is it safe to assume that the larger number of cases under special rules would be paper based? If so that takes the rest down to about 7.58%

This seems to be much higher than in GB

KEVIN