Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 24th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who were refused personal independence payment had that decision changed at mandatory reconsideration in 2016-17.
The figures requested are given in the table below.
| Initial claims made in 2016-17 |
Number of people refused PIP | 390,200 |
|
|
Of whom: |
|
number of people who had that decision changed at mandatory reconsideration | 28,500 |
number of people who had a decision changed at a tribunal appeal | 32,300 |
Figures are for Great Britain.
Appeal figures are based upon appeals against mandatory reconsideration decisions. Initial decisions cannot be appealed until a claimant has gone through the mandatory reconsideration process.
Some decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal. Therefore the number of people who had a decision changed at mandatory reconsideration and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.