C1PART 5CAPABILITY FOR WORK OR WORK-RELATED ACTIVITY
Work Capability Assessment
Information requirement44
1
The information required to determine whether a claimant has limited capability for work or for work and work-related activity is—
a
any information relating to the descriptors specified in Schedule 6 or 7 requested by the Department in the form of a questionnaire, and
b
any additional information that may be requested by it.
2
Where the Department is satisfied that there is enough information to make the determination without the information mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), that information is not required.
3
Where a claimant fails without a good reason to comply with a request under paragraph (1), the claimant is to be treated as not having limited capability for work or, as the case may be, for work and work-related activity.
4
Paragraph (3) does not apply unless the claimant was sent a further request to provide the information, at least 3 weeks after the date of the first request and at least one week has passed since the further request was sent.
Pt. 5 excluded (coming into force in accordance with reg.1 of the amending Rule) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/226), regs. 1, 24(2)