Personal Independence Payment statistics to April 2021
Quarterly Personal Independence Payment (PIP) statistics including numbers of claims with entitlement, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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These official statistics include data up to 30 April 2021 for:
- caseloads (cases with entitlement)
- registrations, clearances and awards
- award reviews and changes of circumstance (experimental)
- award rates
- award types and review periods (experimental)
- mandatory reconsiderations
- average clearance times and average outstanding times
- mandatory reconsideration clearance times
- customer journey statistics (experimental) tracking initial decisions following a PIP assessment through to mandatory reconsideration and appeal
Changes made in this release
A change has been made to include the category “Coronavirus COVID-19” in all low level disability breakdowns in all published series which offer this level of detail. This reflects an operational change made in March 2021 to include this code on the PIP Computer System. Due to the nature of the qualifying period for PIP claims, these cases will all be “long COVID” or “post-COVID syndrome” cases rather than initial COVID-19 infections.
Any individuals with long COVID-19 as their primary reason for claiming PIP prior to March 2021 will not be classified as “Coronavirus COVID-19”. These cases will remain classified according to the main disabling condition identified at the time (for example, respiratory illness, fatigue).
Expected changes in future releases
In the September 2021 release, some minor changes will be made to the PIP Cases with Entitlement series, to:
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show disability as recorded at caseload date instead of at on-flow date as in the current methodology – this will allow a more accurate picture of the disability of an individual claimant at a point in time, in cases where the recorded disability has changed during the claim
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extend reporting of “Award Type” to make the Cases with Entitlement series consistent with the existing Clearance series – this will allow tabulation by whether the award is:
- of “fixed length” (with set period of time before a review takes place)
- an “ongoing award” (with no end date)
- a “short term award without review” (where the claim ends within a small number of years unless a new claim is submitted).
Further information
View an interactive dashboard of the latest PIP statistics by region.
Read more about the Personal Independence Payment quarterly statistics.
Last updated 14 September 2021 + show all updates
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Published a revised version of the data tables - corrected a minor error in rows 15 and 47 of tables 5C and 5D whereby the latest quarter (Oct-20 to Dec-20) had been omitted from the totals.
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First published.