Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 24th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of Personal Independence Payment appeals which went to a tribunal were successful, in each year since those payments were introduced.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The table below shows for those Personal Independence Payment appeals that were cleared at hearing, the proportion that were decided in favour of the claimant.
Financial Year | Percentage of Personal Independence Payment appeals that were cleared at hearing, that were decided in favour of the claimant |
2013/14 | 26% |
2014/15 | 50% |
2015/16 | 61% |
2016/17 | 65% |
2017/18 | 68% |
2018/19 | 73% |
2019/20 | 77% |
2020/21 | 76% |
2021/22 | 70% |
2022/23* | 69% |
Notes:
- This information has been extracted from the Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: October to December 2022 publication produced by the Ministry of Justice. The publication can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2022. “Table SSCS_3 Social Security and Child Support - Number of disposals cleared at hearing by outcomes and benefit type, 2007/08 to Q3 2022/23” has been used to produce these figures.
- Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) also includes Disability Living Allowance reassessed cases. Personal Independence Payment was introduced on 8 April 2013 and replaced Disability Living Allowance for those aged 16 or over.
The 2022/23 financial year is not complete, it will contain up to and including December 2022. The figures for this year are provisional and subject to revision in later publications.