Title page
Contents
Key Points 1
Introduction 3
Flow chart of the AFCS claim process 5
Registered Claims 6
Clearance times 8
Latest injury/illness claim outcomes 10
Demographics of awarded injury/illness claimants 12
Injury/illness awarded conditions 14
Recipients of Guaranteed Income Payments 17
Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP) 18
AFCS awards to those deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan 19
Latest survivors' claim outcomes 20
Survivors' payments 21
Financial expenditure under the AFCS 22
Data, definitions, and methods 24
Glossary 27
References 30
Further information 31
Figure 1. UK AFCS claim process 5
Figure 2. AFCS injury/illness claims, survivors' claims, reconsiderations, appeals, and reviews registered, by financial year the claims were registered,... 7
Figure 3. AFCS clearance times, by claim type and financial year the claims were cleared, median average working days, upper and lower quartiles 8
Figure 4. Survival analysis, presenting the predicted number of working days at which claims will be cleared 9
Figure 5. Accepted injury/illness AFCS claims by outcome and financial year the claims were registered, percentages 11
Figure 6. Gender, age and serviceRN breakdowns of awarded injury/illness claimants, percentages 12
Figure 7. Heat map of location of awarded AFCS injury/illness claimants by UK region, percentages 13
Figure 8. Most common tariff of injuries awarded under the AFCS, numbers and percentages 14
Figure 9. AFCS injury/illness conditions awarded, MSK disorders and Mental disorders, by financial year the claims were registered, percentage of awarded conditions 15
Figure 10. UK Armed Forces Veterans in receipt of a Guaranteed Income Payment, by financial year 17
Figure 11. Awarded AFCS survivors' claims, by financial year the claims were registered, percentages 20
Figure 12. Eligible spouses and children in receipt of a Survivors' Guaranteed Income Payment (GIP) or Child Payment, as at financial year end, numbers 21
Figure 13. AFCS expenditure, by type of payment and financial year paid 22