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<p>Since Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has been introduced, 1,670 people living
in Blackpool Local Authority, whose main condition was a psychiatric disorder, have
been disallowed after their case was referred to the Assessment Provider. The data
the Department holds is up to September 2018. Of the 1,670 cases, 90 decisions resulted
in awards being changed at the Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) stage, and 130 at appeal.</p><p>
</p><p>Since PIP was introduced 3.7m decisions have been made in Great Britain for
all health conditions up to September 2018, of these 10% have been appealed and 5%
have been overturned.</p><p> </p><p>The data has been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>
</p><p>PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants,
and covers new claims and DLA reassessment claims.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>The appeals may
include 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.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants
who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete
the claimant journey and progress to appeal.</p>
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