Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

(asked on 27th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost to her Department is to process a mandatory reconsideration for personal independence payment.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 4th April 2019

The average DWP unit costs for Mandatory Reconsiderations for Personal Independence Payments for the latest full financial year 2017/18 are:

Full year average 2017/18 – Operating costs level unit costs

£

PIP Claims Mandatory Reconsiderations

61.93

PIP Reassessments Mandatory Reconsiderations

53.66

Costs are provided separately for Mandatory Reconsiderations relating to PIP Claims and PIP Reassessments as these are separate activities with costs gathered separately for each.

The average unit costs that have been provided are taken from the DWP’s Activity Based Models at an Operating Costs level which includes direct costs relating to staff undertaking the activities (staff, and local non-staff costs only). They do not include higher level support costs such as management and corporate overheads relating to PIP administration activities.

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