Title page
Contents
Key Points 1
Introduction 3
Registered Claims and Appeals 4
Clearance Times 6
Claim Outcomes 8
War Pension Recipients 10
Causes of Disablement 12
Recipients of Supplementary Allowances 13
Expenditure 14
Methodology 16
Glossary 18
Further Information 21
Figure 1. War Pension Scheme claims registered, by claim type and financial year the claim was registered, numbers and percentage changes since 2013/14 5
Figure 2. War Pension Scheme claim and appeal clearance times, by claim type and financial year cleared, median average, upper quartile and lower quartile 6
Figure 3. War Pension Scheme cleared claims by claim type outcome and financial year the claim was cleared, percentages of cleared claims 9
Figure 4. Disablement Pensioners and War Widows/Widowers in receipt of an ongoing pension, as at financial year end, numbers 10
Figure 5. Supplementary Allowances in payment to Disablement Pensioners and War Widows/Widowers as at financial year end, numbers 13
Figure 6. War Pension Scheme expenditure1 by financial year 15