Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
(asked on 20th June 2018) - 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 of the First-tier tribunal were brought by her Department in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16, (c) 2016-17 and (d) 2017-18; and how many of those appeals in each of those years were found in favour of her Department.
This question was answered on 25th June 2018
The available information is in the following table:
Calendar Year | Number of Completed Appeals Pursued | Number Found in Department’s Favour |
2014 | 9 | 6 |
2015 | 43 | 39 |
2016 | 136 | 120 |
2017 | 51 | 44 |
2018 | 7 | 7 |
There are 57 Personal Independence Payment appeals taken by the Department where we are awaiting an outcome.