Personal Independence Payment

(asked on 17th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer on 11 January 2019 to Question 203813, how many claimants of personal independence payments (a) had their application rejected under Normal Rules and (b) were subsequently awarded benefits after appeal; and what primary condition those claimants had.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 1st February 2019

Between April 2013 and September 2018 3.6 million Personal Independence Payment (PIP) decisions have been made under Normal Rules. Of these 1.6 million were disallowed PIP – this will include those who attended the PIP assessment but did not secure enough points, as well as for other reasons such as failing to attend the assessment or not returning Part 2 of the PIP claim form within the time limit.

Of the 1.6 million disallowed PIP, 96,680 had the decision overturned at appeal, representing 6% of disallowance decisions. These appeals will include cases where the initial decision was changed at Mandatory Reconsideration.

Statistics on the primary medical condition for those disallowed PIP at the initial decision are available in the PIP clearances dataset in Stat-Xplore:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:

https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html

Details of the claimant’s primary medical condition, where recorded, where decisions were overturned at appeal are in the accompanying spreadsheet.

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