Chapter 3 - Health
                           
Table 3.23 Number of claim outcomes by claim type and financial year under the Armed Forces
                        Compensation Scheme1,2
The number of claims registered (Table 3.22) will not match the number of claims cleared because not all claim outcomes are cleared during the same financial year that they are registered.

The number of claims cleared under the AFCS since the scheme began has continued to increase year on year. This is due to an increasing awareness of the scheme, as well as increasing numbers who are eligible to claim, i.e. Service related injury/illness with an incident/onset date on or after 6 April 2005.

The data in this table are not National Statistics, because they have not been designated as such by the Ministry of Defence.
      All claims cleared during:  
      Interim System   CAPS
Claim Type
 All Years   6 Apr 05 - 31 Oct 05   1 Nov 05 - 31 Mar 06   2006/07   2007/08   2008/09  
Injury Claims
                        
 
Total
 8 170   185 || 75   1 320   2 570   4 020  
 
Awarded - Lump sum & GIP3
 320   - || ~   55   90   175  
 
Awarded - Lump sum only
 3 605   65 || 25   510   1 180   1 825  
 
Rejected
 3 670   115 || 50   740   1 125   1 640  
 
Withdrawn
 575   - || ~   20   175   375  
 
                          
Survivors' Claims4                        
 
Total
 400   35 || 5   115   135   110  
 
Awarded
 140   10 || ~   45   50   40  
 
Rejected
 260   25 || 5   70   85   70  
Source: DASA(Health Information)
1. These figures exclude all "spanning cases"; claims considered first for entitlement under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, but passed to the War
    Pension Scheme where the cause or injury occurred prior to 6 April 2005.
2. Between 6 April 2005 and 31 October 2005, claims registered under the AFCS were stored by the SPVA on an interim data system. From 1 November 2005
    onwards the AFCS data was stored on the Compensation and Pension System (CAPS). Figures have been presented separatetely for data stored on the two
    systems.
3. For more severe injuries, tariffs 1-11, as well as a lump sum, a further sum is paid in the form of a Guaranteed Income Payment (GIP) which consists of     regular payments to provide a continuous income stream. The GIP is not paid while the individual is serving but is deferred until the individual is discharged.
4. A single survivor's claim may result in an award which give entitlement to one or more Survivors' Guaranteed Income Payments.