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<p>Waiting times for appeals against decisions made about Personal Independence Payment
(PIP) are published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p>
</p><p>The average time for a decision to be made in the appeal stage of a PIP application
for those transferring from disability living allowance in the period April 2018 to
March 2019 (the latest period for which data are available) is 35 weeks<sup> 1</sup></p><p>
</p><ol><li>Data include cases cleared with and without a Tribunal hearing. An SSCS
appeal may be captured more than once as a clearance should the original decision
be overturned, set aside or if an Upper Tribunal re-hearing is granted. The data are
based on the time from receipt in HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) to the last
decision within the input period.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when
processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent
in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.
The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case management system
on a different date.</p><p> </p><p>Waiting times are calculated from receipt of an
appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first
hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier
hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons,
such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed
(again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal
may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for
the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier,
for its final disposal.</p>
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