634.In April 1999, independent consultants working with the War Pensions Agency (WPA) published a report A Review of Decision Making and Appeals Process. The report recommended a variety of measures including the extension of appeal rights and changes to appeal time limits. The Social Security Select Committee welcomed the review. Representatives of ex-service organisations have received the report and members of the Central Advisory Committee on War Pensions were able to address this matter at their meetings, with the Parliamentary under Secretary, in June and December 1999. The WPA has since completed a feasibility study that concluded that almost all of the proposals identified in the report were both desirable and achievable.
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