Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 24th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2017 to Question 105008, on personal independence payment: appeals, what the average cost to his Department is of each appeal.
This question was answered on 30th October 2017
The Department only holds data on internal costs for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) Appeals.
The average internal cost of each appeal is £278.35 for new claims and £138.84 for reassessment appeals. Other costs are only obtainable at disproportionate cost.