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<p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below provides information on initial decisions,
mandatory reconsiderations and appeals following a Personal Independence Payment assessment
where the primary condition has been determined as chronic pain. Chronic pain has
been taken as anyone listed in the chronic pain syndromes subgroup (Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and chronic pain syndromes– other), non-specific back pain
and specific back pain. The proportion of these figures as a percentage of initial
decisions is also included.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Initial decisions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Disallowed
at initial decision</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Changed at reconsideration or
appeal after being disallowed at initial decision</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>515,520</p></td><td><p>168,130
(33%)</p></td><td><p>33,050 (6%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>Figures
have been rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>Data is based on primary disabling condition
as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling
conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown
in these statistics.</li><li>These figures include initial decisions following assessment
for PIP New Claims and Reassessments from the start of the benefit in April 2013 up
to 30th June 2021, the latest date for which published data is available.</li><li>These
figures cover mandatory reconsideration and appeal decisions at a tribunal hearing
up to 31st September 2021.</li><li>Decisions that were changed at mandatory reconsideration
that were further changed at appeal have only been counted once.</li><li>A change
at appeal includes those that were overturned and those that were lapsed.</li><li>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.</li></ul>
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