Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment appeals resulted in the decision being (a) lapsed and (b) overturned at tribunal hearing in each of the last five years.
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms
The tables below provide information on the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeal clearances; and whether they were lapsed or overturned at a tribunal hearing.
Data provided is for the last five financial years.
Table 1: Number of appeals cleared for each financial year and how many were subsequently lapsed or overturned at a tribunal hearing
Financial Year | Appeals Cleared | Appeals Lapsed | Appeals Overturned |
2019-20 | 99,800 | 27,100 | 53,700 |
2020-21 | 77,000 | 26,300 | 37,000 |
2021-22 | 48,300 | 17,100 | 20,500 |
2022-23 | 65,300 | 19,000 | 30,500 |
2023-24 | 77,700 | 25,600 | 34,400 |
Table 2: Proportion of lapsed or overturned appeals for each financial year
Financial Year | Appeals Lapsed (%) | Appeals Overturned (%) |
2019-20 | 27 | 54 |
2020-21 | 34 | 48 |
2021-22 | 35 | 42 |
2022-23 | 29 | 47 |
2023-24 | 33 | 44 |
Notes:
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.
- Data provided is for England and Wales (excluding Scotland).
- These figures include appeal clearances and decisions for PIP New Claims, Reassessments, Award Reviews and Change of Circumstances. These figures include appeals cleared from April 2019 to March 2024.
- Appeals data has been taken from DWP PIP customer system’s management information. Therefore, this appeal data may differ from that held by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.
- This data is unpublished data. It should be used with caution, and it may be subject to future revision.
- 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.
- An overturned appeal is where the decision was changed in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged and was heard at tribunal hearing.
- Appeals can have their decision upheld or may also be withdrawn by the claimant. These are not included in the above tables.
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