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Jun 18, 2024 · The latest Personal Independence Payment (PIP) statistics show that as at 30 April 2024 there were 3.4 million claimants entitled to PIP (caseload) in England and Wales, a 3% increase on the...
- Personal Independence Payment statistics to April 2021
As at 30th April 2021 there were 2.7 million claimants...
- Personal Independence Payment statistics to April 2021
- 1. Main Stories
- 2. What you need to know
- 3. PIP Claim Activity: Registrations, Reviews and Clearances
- 4. Clearance outcomes – Awards
- 5. Review outcomes
- 6. Clearance outcomes – Award Types and Review Periods (Experimental statistics)
- 7. Clearance and Outstanding Times
- 8. Mandatory Reconsiderations (MRs)
Latest Personal Independence Payment (PIP) statistics show ongoing disruption from the changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in some parts of the PIP process, but recovery in others.
Planned award reviews and some DLA reassessment activity restarted during July 2020, and activity initiated by customers gradually resumed throughout the second half of 2020 and the early part of 2021, although some disruption remains. In the quarter ending April 2021 there were:
•170,000 registrations for new claims, the highest quarterly level of new claim registrations since PIP began
•26,000 reported changes of circumstance, also the highest quarterly level of change of circumstance activity since PIP began
•22,000 registrations for DLA reassessments
•110,000 planned award review registrations
This summary contains official statistics on Personal Independence Payments (PIP). PIP helps with some of the extra costs caused by:
•long-term disability
•ill-health
•terminal ill-health
From 8 April 2013 DWP started to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for working age people with PIP.
The release includes PIP claims for both new customers and those with an existing entitlement for DLA (known as DLA reassessments). The majority of all claims fall under normal rules, while a small proportion fall under special rules for terminal illness (SRTI).
This section covers the volumes of main activities triggered by key points of the PIP customer journey, typically through:
•an initial registration for a claim
•the clearance of the claim when a decision is made as to whether or not PIP should be awarded
•a planned award review, which is an opportunity to look at entitlement at set intervals to ensure a claimant continues to receive the correct award
•the claimant reporting a change of circumstances around their condition or needs arising. The award is reviewed to ensure that they continue to receive the correct entitlement and this may or may not lead to a change in award
New claims, DLA reassessments, award reviews and changes of circumstance are considered together as volumes across different series are interdependent.
A clearance is defined as the resolution of an initial registration, and includes all possible outcomes – awards, disallowances and withdrawals. Where an assessment takes place, a decision is made on whether to award PIP or to disallow the claim, though disallowances and withdrawals can occur prior to assessment. For further detail see the steps of the customer journey outlined in section 2 of this release.
Two different rates can be calculated to show the proportion of cases that result in an award:
•The award rate gives the proportion of claims where PIP is awarded - the number of cases awarded divided by the total number of cases cleared (this calculation can include or exclude cases that are withdrawn, with both series published separately in National Tables 1A – C).
•The assessment award rate gives the proportion of assessments where a decision is made to award PIP - the number of cases awarded divided by the total number of cases where an assessment has taken place (excluding withdrawn cases and those that are disallowed prior to assessment).
Awards may be reviewed either when a claimant reports a change of circumstances, or at the end of their review period as set when the original award was made. During a review of an award, the award level is assessed and may be changed (which can happen with or without the case first being referred to an Assessment Provider). The outcome of a review can be shown as:
•Increased – where the award level has increased for one or both components
•Maintained – where the award level remains as it was prior to the review
•Decreased – where the award level has decreased for one or both components
•Disallowed – where the claimant’s entitlement to benefit is ended
•Withdrawn or voluntarily relinquished (for Changes of Circumstances only)
When PIP is awarded, decisions are also made as to the award type and, where appropriate, the review period.
The award type may be:
•a fixed length award with a set period of time before a review of the award takes place (the “review period”)
•an “ongoing award” with no end date, where the intention will be to apply a light-touch review at the 10-year point
•a “short term award without review” which will not be subject to review but will end within a small number of years of award unless a new claim is submitted (mostly awarded under SRTI, with others being awarded to claimants who are expected to see a significant reduction in needs in the short term)
Award types and review periods are set on an individual basis, based on the claimant’s needs and the likelihood of those needs changing. This takes into account such matters as planned treatment/therapy or learning/adapting to manage a condition. For fixed length awards, the review period usually ranges from a minimum of 9 months to a maximum 10 years. Review periods of less than 9 months are set only in exceptional circumstances. An award of 2 years or less is considered short term. From 31 May 2019 a guidance change for claimants whose review would have taken place when they were of State Pension age means that they are now generally awarded ongoing awards.
Clearance times (median weeks) to April 2021
Source: PIP Statistics to April 2021, Table 2A Clearance times for normal rules new claims: are currently (April 2021) 19 weeks “end to end” (from registration to a decision being made) and 13 weeks from the AP referral to the decision are slightly higher than a year ago (16 weeks and 11 weeks respectively in April 2020), during the initial period of the pandemic reflected distortions due to COVID-19 measures throughout most of 2020, with an initial drop in April 2020, increases over May to August 2020, and a subsequent drop in September to October 2020 Clearance times for normal rules DLA reassessment claims: are currently (April 2021) 23 weeks “end to end” (from registration to a decision being made) and 18 weeks from the AP referral to the decision are slightly lower than a year ago (27 weeks and 19 weeks respectively in April 2020), during the initial period of the pandemic reflected distortions due to COVID-19 measures throughout most of 2020, with increases (excepting a dip in May and June 2020) from April 2020 to a peak in October to November 2020 Clearance times for SRTI claims: are 4 working days for new claims and 6 working days for DLA reassessment claims from registration to decision Information on clearance times and outstanding times (time already waited for cases where DWP has yet to make a decision), including regional breakdowns, can be found in National Tables 2 - 3 accompanying this release.
Claimants who wish to dispute a decision on their PIP claim at any stage can ask DWP to reconsider the decision. This is a mandatory reconsideration (MR) and must be completed before an appeal is made and lodged with HMCTS.
An MR considers the grounds for the dispute and reviews the original decision. An MR may give rise to a change in award, which includes:
•previously disallowed claims that are now awarded
•claims that had previously been awarded but the MR has resulted in a change in the level of the award
Sep 18, 2024 · Record 3.5 million people now getting PIP, latest statistics show. Details. Published: 18 September 2024. The latest personal independence payment (PIP) statistics reveal a record number of 3.5 million claims in payment, with over a third of the latest claimants getting the highest possible award.
Mar 23, 2021 · 5.7 million claims to PIP were registered. 5.4 million claims have been cleared, with: 42% of normal rules new claims, 71% of normal rules DLA reassessment claims, 99% of special rules terminal illness claims. receiving an award. These figures include claimants who are disallowed prior to assessment or who fail to attend their assessment.
This summary contains official statistics on PIP registrations, clearances, awards, clearance & outstanding times, mandatory reconsiderations and claims in payment for both new claims and claims...
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PIP is paid every 4 weeks, but if you have a terminal illness it’s paid every week. You can find out more about how benefits are paid and the type of accounts they can be paid into on GOV.UK . It includes what to do if you don’t have a bank account or can’t open one.
