Universal Credit is now the main system of working age welfare support across the country. It is available in every Jobcentre, with a caseload of over 2.7 million claimants, growing every month, now able to access the additional support and flexibilities it offers.<\/p>
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The latest available information on the number of people on Universal Credit for the parliamentary constituency of Torfaen is published and can be found at:<\/p>
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:<\/p>
<\/p><\/td> | Initial claims made in 2016-17<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Number of people refused PIP<\/p><\/td> 390,200<\/p><\/td><\/tr> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> Of whom:<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> number of people who had that decision changed at mandatory reconsideration<\/p><\/td> 28,500<\/p><\/td><\/tr> number of people who had a decision changed at a tribunal appeal<\/p><\/td> 32,300<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> Figures are for Great Britain.<\/p> Appeal figures are based upon appeals against mandatory reconsideration decisions. Initial decisions cannot be appealed until a claimant has gone through the mandatory reconsideration process.<\/p> Some decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal. Therefore the number of people who had a decision changed at mandatory reconsideration and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.<\/p>"}
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