Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 17th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals against Personal Independence Payment decisions were lapsed by her Department in each of the last five years.
A lapsed appeal is where DWP changed the decision in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at a tribunal hearing.
The table below provides information on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeal registrations and lapsed appeals. Data provided is for the last five financial years.
Table 1: Appeals registered for each financial year and how many were subsequently lapsed
Financial year | Appeals registered | Appeals subsequently lapsed |
2018-19 | 94,000 | 18,000 |
2019-20 | 82,000 | 27,000 |
2020-21 | 55,000 | 23,000 |
2021-22 | 50,000 | 17,000 |
2022-23 | 81,000 | 18,000 |
Notes:
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000.
- Data provided is for England and Wales (excluding Scotland).
- These figures include appeal registrations and decisions for PIP New Claims, Reassessments, Award Reviews and Change of Circumstances. These figures include appeals registered from April 2018 to March 2023 and any lapsed appeals related to these appeal registrations up to the 30th September 2023, the latest date for which published data is available.
- Appeals data has been taken from DWP PIP customer system’s management information. Therefore, this appeal data may differ from that held by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.
- This data is unpublished data. It should be used with caution, and it may be subject to future revision.