Personal Independence Payment
(asked on 16th January 2018) - 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 claims were (a) rejected, (b) appealed and (c) went to tribunal in each of the last six months.
The number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) cleared claims that were disallowed can be found via Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
The relevant data can be found in Table 2 – PIP Clearances by Clearance Type.
Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.
The number of Mandatory Reconsiderations (MRs) can be found in the DWP published statistics “Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to October 2017”. The relevant data is in “Table 7A_Recons_Registrations” in Data tables.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2017
The number of PIP appeals cleared at hearing is available quarterly and the last published data was released in December 2017.
This data can be found in Table SSCS.3 of the quarterly bulletin published by the Ministry of Justice “Tribunals and gender recognition certificate statistics quarterly – July to September 2017”.