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Decision date:
30 April 2018
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Table: Number of withdrawals against claim types for the last four financial years (2013-14 to 2016-17):
Claim Type
Intake
Withdrawals
% Withdrawn
VEA*
60,199
3,273
5.4%
MRCA Initial Liability
30,066
3,177
10.6%
DRCA Initial Liability
25,321
2,522
10.0%
MRCA Permanent
18,691
3,119
16.7%
Impairment
DRCA Permanent
17,713
2,456
13.9%
Impairment
TOTAL
151,990
14,547
9.6%
*This includes claims for disability pension, applications for increase, and war widow/ers claims)
The Department does not record abandonment rates. The Department records when the claim has been
withdrawn, although does not record the reason for withdrawal. Nothing this, some of the reasons for the
claims being withdrawn, in no particular order, are:
Claimant choice
No relevant service
No relevant conditions
Claimant non-compliance
Registered in error