§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans she has to subject all benefit integrity project decisions to reduce or stop benefit, taken prior to the introduction of the pre-adjudication check, to the pre-adjudication check. [31732]
§ Mr. DenhamAll Disability Living Allowance decision notices carry information about the claimant's rights of review and appeal. Anyone who thinks that the decision made in their case is incorrect should contact the Benefits Agency, in the normal way.
The extra safeguard, introduced from 9 February, has been designed to provide adjudication officers, making decisions about entitlement as part of the Benefit Integrity Project, with a wider range of information about a claimant's current need for help with personal care and getting around than that provided by the claimant's statement alone. We want to ensure that people do not, unnecessarily, have to go through the review and appeal system to secure their proper entitlement. The extra safeguard will not be retrospective.