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Personal Independence Payment: Multiple Sclerosis

Answer

The information requested on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) mandatory reconsiderations (MR) and appeals for claimants with a primary disabling condition of Multiple Sclerosis in Scotland, Wales and England can be found in the tables below.

The Northern Irish Assembly has devolved responsibility for social security benefits. The responsibility for statistics in Northern Ireland lies with the Department for Communities: http://www.communities-ni.gov.uk

Since PIP was introduced 4.1m decisions have been made up to March 2019, of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned.

Reassessments from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to PIP.

Table 1: The number of Initial Decisions, MRs and appeals for reassessment claims to PIP with a main disabling condition of multiple sclerosis, Scotland.

Financial Year of Initial Decision	Number of Initial Decisions	MRs registered	MRs completed where the initial award was changed	MRs completed where the initial award was not changed	Appeals Lodged	Appeals where the decision was lapsed	Appeals where the decision was maintained	Appeals where the decision was overturned in favour of the claimant
2013/14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2014/15	70	10	10	#	#	0	#	#
2015/16	370	70	20	60	50	#	10	30
2016/17	1,360	210	60	150	100	10	20	60
2017/18	820	140	40	100	70	10	10	40
2018/19	690	120	20	80	60	10	10	20

Table 2: The number of Initial Decisions, MRs and appeals for reassessment claims to PIP with a main disabling condition of multiple sclerosis, Wales.

Financial Year of Initial Decision	Number of Initial Decisions	MRs registered	MRs completed where the initial award was changed	MRs completed where the initial award was not changed	Appeals Lodged	Appeals where the decision was lapsed	Appeals where the decision was maintained	Appeals where the decision was overturned in favour of the claimant
2013/14	#	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2014/15	150	40	20	20	20	#	0	10
2015/16	250	60	10	50	30	#	#	20
2016/17	930	200	60	150	90	10	10	70
2017/18	430	60	20	50	30	#	#	20
2018/19	240	50	10	20	10	#	0	0

Table 3: The number of Initial Decisions, MRs and appeals for reassessment claims to PIP with a main disabling condition of multiple sclerosis, England.

Financial Year of Initial Decision	Number of Initial Decisions	MRs registered	MRs completed where the initial award was changed	MRs completed where the initial award was not changed	Appeals Lodged	Appeals where the decision was lapsed	Appeals where the decision was maintained	Appeals where the decision was overturned in favour of the claimant
2013/14	#	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2014/15	610	110	50	50	40	#	#	30
2015/16	2,720	640	160	470	300	30	40	220
2016/17	9,920	1,970	550	1,400	840	80	140	560
2017/18	7,160	1,380	330	1,040	620	100	70	350
2018/19	6,260	1,220	300	810	500	120	10	80

New Claims to PIP.

Table 4: The number of Initial Decisions, MRs and appeals for PIP new claims with a main disabling condition of multiple sclerosis, Scotland.

Financial Year of Initial Decision	Number of Initial Decisions	MRs registered	MRs completed where the initial award was changed	MRs completed where the initial award was not changed	Appeals Lodged	Appeals where the decision was lapsed	Appeals where the decision was maintained	Appeals where the decision was overturned in favour of the claimant
2013/14	130	20	10	20	10	#	#	#
2014/15	560	110	20	90	40	10	10	20
2015/16	470	120	20	100	40	#	20	20
2016/17	540	130	20	110	50	10	10	30
2017/18	500	110	10	90	40	#	10	30
2018/19	440	100	10	80	30	10	#	10

Table 5: The number of Initial Decisions, MRs and appeals for PIP new claims with a main disabling condition of multiple sclerosis, Wales.

Financial Year of Initial Decision	Number of Initial Decisions	MRs registered	MRs completed where the initial award was changed	MRs completed where the initial award was not changed	Appeals Lodged	Appeals where the decision was lapsed	Appeals where the decision was maintained	Appeals where the decision was overturned in favour of the claimant
2013/14	40	10	#	10	#	0	#	#
2014/15	250	40	10	30	10	#	#	10
2015/16	140	30	10	20	#	0	#	#
2016/17	180	40	#	40	20	#	10	10
2017/18	160	40	10	30	20	0	#	10
2018/19	190	50	10	30	10	#	#	#

Table 6: The number of Initial Decisions, MRs and appeals for PIP new claims with a main disabling condition of multiple sclerosis, England.

Financial Year of Initial Decision	Number of Initial Decisions	MRs registered	MRs completed where the initial award was changed	MRs completed where the initial award was not changed	Appeals Lodged	Appeals where the decision was lapsed	Appeals where the decision was maintained	Appeals where the decision was overturned in favour of the claimant
2013/14	530	90	30	60	30	10	10	10
2014/15	3,940	650	170	470	180	30	40	100
2015/16	3,240	730	130	600	240	20	60	150
2016/17	3,040	670	90	580	230	30	70	120
2017/18	3,130	740	110	630	280	40	40	160
2018/19	2,780	640	100	450	190	20	#	20

Source: PIP Computer System

All data rounded to the nearest 10. # refers to where there are less than 5 cases.

Components may not sum to totals due to rounding.

In the application process, claimants’ primary disabling condition is only recorded for collation by the Department at assessment.

Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.

The geography relates to the origin of the claim (i.e. derived from claimant’s postcode).

PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants.

Some decisions which are changed at MR, 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 MR and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.

Lapsed appeals are where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal.

Claimants who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete the claimant journey and progress to an MR and appeal.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

276586

Session

2017-19

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Multiple sclerosis Personal independence payment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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