Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 20th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of the appeals process for personal independence payments in each year since its introduction.
This question was answered on 27th March 2017
We are unable to provide data for the years 2013/14 and 2014/15.
In 2015/16 DWP’s operating costs for PIP appeals to the First-tier Tribunal were £7,046,850. In the first nine months of 2016/17 they were £7,432,033.