Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 21st May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of tribunal hearings that challenge a personal independence payment decision have been awarded in favour of the claimant in each year since 2014 in (a) St Helens (b) Merseyside (c) nationally.
Latest figures for PIP (to December 2018) indicate that since it was introduced, 3.9 million decisions have been made. Of these, 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at Tribunals.
Information about outcomes to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about outcomes to PIP appeals in (a) St Helens (b) Merseyside and (c) nationally from 2015/16; data for the preceding year are provided below.
Proportion of Personal Independence Payment 1 hearings in favour of the appellant (National data can be found in the main tables of the published stats. Venue data can be found in the published stats from 2015/2016) | |||
| St Helens 2 | Merseyside3 | National |
Financial Year4 |
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2014-2015 | 42% | 44% | 50% |
1 Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments).
2 Data includes data for the St Helens venue. The Warrington & Runcorn venues closed in 2016 when the majority of postcodes for these areas were assigned to the St Helens venue.
3 Data includes data for Liverpool, Birkenhead, St Helens venue. The Warrington & Runcorn venues closed in 2016 when the majority of postcodes for these areas were assigned to the St Helens venue.