Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 11th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the (a) average and (b) longest time between a claimant receiving a letter denying a claim for personal independence payment and the completion of a tribunal appeal hearing relating to that claim.
This question was answered on 16th January 2017
The latest published information shows that the average clearance time for all benefit appeals is 16 weeks.
The Information in relation to the Mandatory Reconsideration part of the dispute process is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.