Personal Independence Payment

(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment claimants has the original decision on their application overturned as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration, (b) the lodging of an appeal, without that appeal being heard and (c) an appeal hearing in each month for which data is available.


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Penny Mordaunt
This question was answered on 6th September 2017

The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) clearances split by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) can be found at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/.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

a) Statistics on outcomes of Mandatory Reconsiderations split by month can be found in published statistics in tables 7B of: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics

These statistics relate to normal rules claims (i.e. excluding special rules cases for the terminally ill).

b) The following table gives the number of decisions overturned by DWP after an appeal had been lodged, but before the appeal was heard by the tribunal for the period Apr13-Mar17.

Month/Year
cases were settled

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Jan

#

200

300

800

Feb

#

300

200

700

Mar

#

400

200

900

Apr

0

#

300

300

May

0

#

400

400

Jun

0

#

400

300

Jul

0

100

300

300

Aug

0

100

200

400

Sep

0

100

200

400

Oct

#

100

200

500

Nov

#

200

300

600

Dec

#

200

200

500

Total

0

900

3400

4300

2500

‘#’ Fewer than 50 claims in this category

Between April 2013 and March 2017 11,000 cases were settled by the Department after the Mandatory reconsideration had taken place and an appeal been lodged, but before the tribunal hearing.

c) Quarterly statistics on overturned cases at appeal can be found in published statistics from the Ministry of Justice in table SSCS.3 of: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#history

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