Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has resumed a review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants to identify those who may be due backdated benefits as a result of a change in the law.
The DWP paused its search for affected claimants in March 2020 in order to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and focus on the increased demands on their services, however, these restarted in October 2020.
In a recently released UK Government paper, the DWP stated that by January 17, 2021, the total amount of arrears payments made to PIP claimants since June 2018 is £32 million.
The backdated payments are made under what is known as the LEAP review, which began in June 2018 and involves the DWP looking through the cases of approximately 1.6.
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