Personal Independence Payment: York
(asked on 17th May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in York have had their entitlement to personal independence payments upheld as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) an appeal hearing.
The number of Mandatory Reconsideration clearances for Personal Independence Payment in York Local Authority broken down by clearance type for each financial year since its introduction is as follows:
Financial Year | New Decision - Award Changed | New Decision - Award Unchanged | Decision Not Revised | Withdrawn/ | Total |
13/14 | # | # | 10 | 0 | 20 |
14/15 | 50 | 170 | 60 | # | 280 |
15/16 | 70 | 300 | 10 | 10 | 390 |
16/17 | 120 | 440 | 20 | 30 | 610 |
Apr 17 - Jan 18 | 80 | 320 | 20 | 30 | 440 |
Total | 320 | 1,230 | 120 | 70 | 1,740 |
The number of appeals for Personal Independence Payment in York Local Authority broken down by outcome for each financial year since its introduction is as follows:
Financial Year | Decision Overturned | Decision Upheld | Total |
14/15 | # | 10 | 10 |
15/16 | 90 | 50 | 140 |
16/17 | 130 | 70 | 200 |
Apr 17 - Dec 17 | 120 | 50 | 160 |
Total | 330 | 180 | 510 |
Reconsiderations data is available to January 2018. Appeals data is to December 2017.
#’ means greater than zero but fewer than 5 in this category.
Data has been rounded to the nearest 10.
PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and is for both new claims and DLA reassessment claims
Some decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal. Therefore the number of people who had a decision changed at mandatory reconsideration and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.
Award overturned at appeal may include a small number of appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal).
The Local Authority Region geography relates to the origin of the claim (i.e. derived from claimant’s postcode) rather than the location of where the tribunal was held.
Appeals data taken from the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore this appeal data may differ from that held by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.