Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

(asked on 30th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many personal independence payment appeals to the First Tier Tribunal in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21 that were cleared without a hearing were (i) withdrawn by the appellant, (ii) struck out, (iii) superseded and (iv) lapsed by the Department for Work and Pensions.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 9th July 2021

General information about appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics

The specific information requested is set out below:

Employment Support Allowance1

Universal Credit (UC)

Personal Independence Payment2

Withdrawn Before Hearing

Struck Out Before Hearing

Superseded3

Withdrawn Before Hearing

Struck Out Before Hearing

Superseded

Withdrawn Before Hearing

Struck Out Before Hearing

Superseded

2018/194

2057

86

7544

270

27

2028

3562

113

15651

2019/20

1302

147

5158

725

90

4766

3373

321

30231

2020/21

430

279

908

812

442

3667

2092

1245

31564

In 2019/20p, 12,235 (66%) UC appeals included an element5 relating to Limited Capability for Work, and in 2020/21p the figure was 3,002 (38%).

1Includes Employment Support Allowance (ESA) and ESA (Reassessments)

2Includes Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and PIP (Reassessments)

3Includes superseded and lapsed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

4Financial Years April to March

p Provisional data and subject to further change. SSCS appeals are currently undergoing system updates. As such the data for 2019 to 2021 is based on legacy systems and these will be an under-representation of the actual number (2019/20 circa 1% and 2020/21 circa 14%).

5HMCTS may not be aware of the elements under dispute until after the DWP response is received

6Limited Capability for Work is an element of UC

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 is the best data that is available. The data may differ slightly to that of the published statistics where data was run on a different date.

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