Improving Lives: the Future of Work, Health and Disability<\/em>. We believe people should get the support they need whatever their health condition or disability, whether that\u2019s from their employer, from the health system or from the welfare system.<\/p> <\/p>
We have invested in our Personal Support Package, which includes £330 million of funding over four years with a range of new interventions and initiatives designed to provide support that is tailored to the individual needs of claimants. We have recruited 300 additional Disability Employment Advisers and we are introducing 200 new Community Partners, bringing specialist advice and support into the Jobcentre.<\/p>
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We are supporting employers to help them recruit and retain disabled people and people with health conditions through Disability Confident, the Access to Work scheme, and specialist advisers in Jobcentres.<\/p>
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The number of working age disabled people in employment in the UK reached around 3.9 million in Q3 2018. This was an increase of 123,000 since Q3 2017.<\/p>
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Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals -<\/p>
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In the Blaenau Gwent constituency, (i) 130 claimants were successful in appeals in 2017-18 and (ii) 30 claimants were successful in appeals between April and June 2018, the latest date for which statistics have been published. These figures include all PIP appeals; so they will contain appeals where claimants appealed for a higher PIP award as well as those appeals against a disallowance decision. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.<\/p>
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Appeals data taken from the DWP PIP computer system\u2019s management information. Therefore this appeal data may differ from that held by Her Majesty\u2019s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.<\/p>
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The Parliamentary Constituency geography relates to the origin of the claim (i.e. derived from claimant\u2019s postcode) rather than the location of where the tribunal was.<\/p>
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Decisions overturned at appeal may include a number of appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal).<\/p>
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Since PIP was introduced, 3.5m decisions have been made nationally up to June 2018. Of these, 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.<\/p>
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Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) appeals -<\/p>
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Information on appeal outcome by claim start date and Parliamentary Constituency is<\/p>
available on Stat-Xplore under \u201cESA Work Capability Assessments\u201d.<\/p>
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/<\/a><\/p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:<\/p>
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html<\/p>
Between April 2014 and March 2018, 3.5m ESA (post WCA) decisions have been made nationally, of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.<\/p>"}
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