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<p>Table 1 below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessment
decisions, mandatory reconsideration (MR) registrations, appeals cleared and decisions
overturned at appeal for people with a primary disabling condition of multiple sclerosis.</p><p>
</p><p><em>Table 1: Number of PIP reassessment decisions, mandatory reconsideration
(MR) registrations, appeals cleared and decisions overturned at appeal for people
with a primary disabling condition of multiple sclerosis by year of initial decision</em></p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of decisions</p></td><td><p>Number
of MRs registered</p></td><td><p>Number of appeals cleared</p></td><td><p>Number of
decisions overturned at appeal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,950</p></td><td><p>470</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>9,840</p></td><td><p>1,960</p></td><td><p>780</p></td><td><p>640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>10,540</p></td><td><p>1,990</p></td><td><p>660</p></td><td><p>560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018
(January to June)</p></td><td><p>3,980</p></td><td><p>580</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p>Table 2 below shows the number of PIP new claims for people with a
primary disabling condition of multiple sclerosis who did not receive an award at
the initial decision post assessment and where the decision was changed at MR or appeal.</p><p>
</p><p><em>Table 2: Number of PIP new claims decisions for people who did not receive
an award at the initial decision post assessment where the award was changed at mandatory
reconsideration (MR) and where decisions were overturned at appeal for people with
a primary disabling condition of multiple sclerosis by year of initial decision</em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Number of decisions</p></td><td><p>Number of decisions where the award
was changed at MR</p></td><td><p>Number of appeals cleared</p></td><td><p>Number of
decisions overturned at appeal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>850</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,550</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1,290</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>1,350</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>160</p></td><td><p>110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018
(January to June)</p></td><td><p>810</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>#</p></td><td><p>#</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p>Since PIP was introduced 3.5m decisions have been made until June 2018,
of these 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.</p><p> </p><p>Data on
the number of people who had the mobility award increased from none or standard rate
to the enhanced rate is available from internal analytical datasets, but to assess
the completeness of recording and quality assure the figures to answer this PQ would
incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Data has been rounded to the nearest 10. Components
may not sum to totals due to rounding.</p><p>'#' fewer than 5 decisions in this category.</p><p>The
data relates to MRs and appeals recorded up to June 2018 (the latest published data
on appeals). Claimants who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet
have had time to complete the claimant journey and progress to appeal.</p><p>PIP data
includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and is for
both new claims and DLA reassessment claims.</p><p>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.</p><p>Appeals data shown in the tables is taken from
the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore this appeals data
may differ from that held by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various
reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating
and preparing statistics.</p><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><p>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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