Social Security Benefits: Appeals
(asked on 29th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals relating to (a) Employment Support Allowance, (b) Personal Independence Payments and (c) Universal Credit lapsed in each month from January 2010 to July 2022.
A lapsed appeal is where DWP changed the decision (in the customer’s favour) after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at a tribunal hearing.
The information requested for Employment and Support Allowance is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
The information on the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals lapsed between the earliest month October 2013 and the latest available month March 2022 is given below:
Appeal Clearance Month | Number of PIP Appeals Lapsed |
October 2013 | 0 |
November 2013 | 0 |
December 2013 | 10 |
January 2014 | 10 |
February 2014 | 20 |
March 2014 | 30 |
April 2014 | 50 |
May 2014 | 50 |
June 2014 | 50 |
July 2014 | 60 |
August 2014 | 50 |
September 2014 | 70 |
October 2014 | 100 |
November 2014 | 200 |
December 2014 | 210 |
January 2015 | 250 |
February 2015 | 270 |
March 2015 | 370 |
April 2015 | 370 |
May 2015 | 380 |
June 2015 | 430 |
July 2015 | 320 |
August 2015 | 210 |
September 2015 | 240 |
October 2015 | 240 |
November 2015 | 290 |
December 2015 | 250 |
January 2016 | 270 |
February 2016 | 260 |
March 2016 | 220 |
April 2016 | 300 |
May 2016 | 380 |
June 2016 | 360 |
July 2016 | 350 |
August 2016 | 410 |
September 2016 | 410 |
October 2016 | 470 |
November 2016 | 570 |
December 2016 | 510 |
January 2017 | 850 |
February 2017 | 750 |
March 2017 | 930 |
April 2017 | 760 |
May 2017 | 820 |
June 2017 | 840 |
July 2017 | 810 |
August 2017 | 890 |
September 2017 | 810 |
October 2017 | 810 |
November 2017 | 910 |
December 2017 | 790 |
January 2018 | 1190 |
February 2018 | 1190 |
March 2018 | 920 |
April 2018 | 750 |
May 2018 | 930 |
June 2018 | 940 |
July 2018 | 1230 |
August 2018 | 1320 |
September 2018 | 1460 |
October 2018 | 1560 |
November 2018 | 1580 |
December 2018 | 1180 |
January 2019 | 1830 |
February 2019 | 1590 |
March 2019 | 2120 |
April 2019 | 2340 |
May 2019 | 3510 |
June 2019 | 3150 |
July 2019 | 2640 |
August 2019 | 2510 |
September 2019 | 1890 |
October 2019 | 1780 |
November 2019 | 2450 |
December 2019 | 1870 |
January 2020 | 2840 |
February 2020 | 2640 |
March 2020 | 2310 |
April 2020 | 2110 |
May 2020 | 1880 |
June 2020 | 1980 |
July 2020 | 2350 |
August 2020 | 2270 |
September 2020 | 3020 |
October 2020 | 3070 |
November 2020 | 3700 |
December 2020 | 2110 |
January 2021 | 2370 |
February 2021 | 2090 |
March 2021 | 2570 |
April 2021 | 2260 |
May 2021 | 1720 |
June 2021 | 1340 |
July 2021 | 1350 |
August 2021 | 1390 |
September 2021 | 1900 |
October 2021 | 1570 |
November 2021 | 1230 |
December 2021 | 1220 |
January 2022 | 1690 |
February 2022 | 1590 |
March 2022 | 1930 |
Data has been rounded to the nearest 10. Totals are for Great Britain.
PIP appeals data has been taken from the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore, this 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.
The information on the number of Universal Credit (UC) appeals lapsed between the earliest month available of April 2016 and the most recent month available March 2022 is given below:
Appeal Clearance Month | Number of UC Appeals Lapsed |
April 2016 | 60 |
May 2016 | 20 |
June 2016 | 20 |
July 2016 | 20 |
August 2016 | 40 |
September 2016 | 40 |
October 2016 | 30 |
November 2016 | 10 |
December 2016 | 20 |
January 2017 | 10 |
February 2017 | 20 |
March 2017 | 50 |
April 2017 | 40 |
May 2017 | 30 |
June 2017 | 60 |
July 2017 | 40 |
August 2017 | 30 |
September 2017 | 30 |
October 2017 | 50 |
November 2017 | 50 |
December 2017 | 40 |
January 2018 | 60 |
February 2018 | 90 |
March 2018 | 50 |
April 2018 | 30 |
May 2018 | 20 |
June 2018 | 30 |
July 2018 | 20 |
August 2018 | 40 |
September 2018 | 30 |
October 2018 | 20 |
November 2018 | 20 |
December 2018 | 10 |
January 2019 | 30 |
February 2019 | 10 |
March 2019 | 10 |
April 2019 | 10 |
May 2019 | 30 |
June 2019 | 100 |
July 2019 | 130 |
August 2019 | 190 |
September 2019 | 390 |
October 2019 | 520 |
November 2019 | 520 |
December 2019 | 480 |
January 2020 | 610 |
February 2020 | 410 |
March 2020 | 230 |
April 2020 | 200 |
May 2020 | 270 |
June 2020 | 310 |
July 2020 | 430 |
August 2020 | 370 |
September 2020 | 260 |
October 2020 | 230 |
November 2020 | 190 |
December 2020 | 150 |
January 2021 | 240 |
February 2021 | 300 |
March 2021 | 320 |
April 2021 | 200 |
May 2021 | 170 |
June 2021 | 210 |
July 2021 | 170 |
August 2021 | 180 |
September 2021 | 210 |
October 2021 | 180 |
November 2021 | 210 |
December 2021 | 200 |
January 2022 | 230 |
February 2022 | 190 |
March 2022 | 260 |
Data has been rounded to the nearest 10. Totals are for Great Britain.
UC data has been taken from on the Decision Makers and Case recorder dataset (DMACR). Therefore, this 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. A significant analytical investment has already been made into understanding and assuring the UC data from this source.