Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 7th February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of Personal Independence Payment appeals from people resident in (i) England and (ii) Wolverhampton North East have been successful.
2.9m initial Personal Independence Payment (PIP) decisions were made by the Department for Work and Pensions between April 2013 and September 2017. Of those, 8% were appealed against, and 4% overturned at an appeal hearing. These data are included in the links below.
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
The information provided below is a further breakdown of these data.
The number and proportion of Personal Independence Payment1 appeals decided in favour of the appellant | England |
| Wolverhampton North East2 | |
| No. Found in favour3 | % Found in favour4 | No. Found in favour | % Found in favour |
2013-20145 | 16 | 25% | 0 | 0% |
2014-20155 | 2488 | 50% | 42 | 42% |
2015-20165 | 23675 | 61% | 953 | 61% |
2016-20175 | 36834 | 66% | 1148 | 67% |
Quarter 1 2017-20186 | 11137 | 66% | 398 | 64% |
Quarter 2 2017-20187 | 11448 | 68% | 346 | 74% |
1. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged 16 to 64 from 8 April 2013. Data includes Personal Independence (New Claims and Reassessments). There were low volumes in 2013-2014.
- Social Security and Child Support data are attributed to a hearing venue nearest to the appellants’ home address. For appellants identified as living in Wolverhampton North East those appeals are among those attributed to the Walsall and Wolverhampton Tribunal Venues.
3. No. Found in favour is based on the number found in favour of the appellant.
4. Percentage Found in favour is based on the number found in favour as a percentage of the appeals cleared at hearing this is in line with the published stats calculation.
5. Financial Years April to March.
6. Quarter 1 April- June.
7. Quarter 2 July- September- the latest period for which data are available.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.
The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case management system on a different date.