Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of applications currently in the system for (i) Personal Independence Payment; (ii) Attendance Allowance; and (iii) Disability Living Allowance.
Minister for Communities: The numbers of applications currently in the system for each of the disability benefits are provided in the table below1.
| Personal Independence Payment2 | Attendance Allowance3 | Disability Living Allowance3 |
| 10,970 | 1,840 | 831 |
1 Claims included are those received and registered that have not yet had a decision made on entitlement.
2 Taken from the Department’s PIP statistics published in August 2024 and covering the period up to 31 May 2024.
3 Taken from data produced by DWP benefit systems as at 20 September 2024.
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