Official Statistics

Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to October 2020

Quarterly statistics including numbers of claims with entitlement, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

PIP: Award Rates, Clearance/Outstanding Times, Customer Journey Statistics, and Award Reviews and Changes of Circumstance, to October 2020 (XLS)

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PIP: Award Rates, Clearance/Outstanding Times, Customer Journey Statistics, and Award Reviews and Changes of Circumstance, to October 2020 (ODS)

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Details

The latest release of these statistics can be found in the collection of Personal Independence Payment statistics.

These official statistics include data up to 31 October 2020 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 Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment through to mandatory reconsideration and appeal

In addition, they contain annually updated statistics giving Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reassessment comparison of outcomes including, for the first time, outcomes for child DLA claimants who reach 16 years of age and are invited to claim PIP.

View an interactive dashboard of the latest PIP statistics by region.

Read more about the Personal Independence Payment quarterly statistics.

Updates to this page

Published 15 December 2020

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