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Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

Answer

The requested information for new claims under normal rules in areas under DWP policy ownership are included below. This data is for initial decisions between 1 April 2024 and 31 December 2025, the most recent date for mandatory reconsiderations and appeals data.

Table 1: award rates (%) for initial decision, mandatory reconsideration (MR), and appeal by condition subgroup.

	Anxiety disorders	Conduct disorder (including oppositional defiant disorder)	Mixed anxiety and depressive disorders	Mood disorders	Substance (mis) use disorders
Initial clearance award rate	46	55	53	52	72
MR change rate	10	4	12	12	16
Appeal overturn rate	41	x	45	42	55

Notes:

• There were insufficient appeals for claimants with conduct disorder for an appeal overturn rate to be meaningful.
• The rate for MRs is the percentage of cleared MRs which resulted in an award being changed.
• The overturn rate for appeals is the number of appeals that were overturned at a tribunal as a percentage of appeals which were cleared or lapsed (decision changed by DWP without going to a tribunal).
• The claimants’ primary conditions at the time of initial decision were used to categorise these percentages. Many PIP claimants have additional conditions which factor into the decisions made and claimants who have the listed conditions as supplementary conditions will not be included in the table.
• Percentages have been rounded to the nearest percentage point.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL1895

Session

2026-27

Subjects

Appeals Applications Mental illness Tribunals Personal independence payment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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