Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 4th June 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payment lodged by people with epilepsy were referred to a tribunal in each of the last three years; and how many of those referrals resulted in (a) an award of benefit where this had previously been refused and (b) an increase in the level of benefit.
The tables below provide information on initial decisions following a Personal Independence Payment assessment for claimants with a primary disabling condition of epilepsy:
Financial year of initial decision | MRs registered | Disallowed at initial decision – award changed at MR | Awarded at initial decision and award changed at MR |
2018-19 | 4,690 | 570 | 370 |
2019-20 | 3,870 | 490 | 670 |
2020-21 (to September) | 1,110 | 180 | 210 |
Financial year of initial decision | Appeals lodged | Disallowed at initial and MR decisions – award changed at tribunal hearing or appeal lapsed | Awarded at initial or MR decision – award changed at tribunal hearing or appeal lapsed |
2018-19 | 2,160 | 980 | 760 |
2019-20 | 1,460 | 430 | 590 |
2020-21 (to September) | 300 | 50 | 80 |
Notes:
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
- The volumes of MRs and appeals for the more recent periods of initial decision could increase as claimants’ progress to MR and appeal.
- Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.
- Appeal lapsed is where DWP changed the decision (in the customer’s favour) after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at a tribunal hearing.
- Some decisions which are changed at the Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) stage, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal.