Personal Independence Payment statistics to July 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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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 July 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 the PIP Cases with Entitlement series, to show disability as recorded at caseload date instead of at on-flow date. This has had minimal impact on the figures but allows 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.
In the June 2021 release of PIP statistics a development was announced for inclusion in this release to add a breakdown by “Award Type” to the PIP Cases with Entitlement series. During testing it was found that this breakdown cannot be included without significant further development and so this addition to the statistics has not been made at this time, but remains under development.
Expected changes in future releases
In the next release (in December 2021), publication of the Award Review statistics (registrations and clearances for Planned Award Reviews & Changes of circumstance) will be moved from static data tables to Stat-Xplore. This will allow users to access more detailed breakdowns of these statistics by combinations of:
- geography (region, local authority and parliamentary constituency and for Stat-Xplore, Middle and Lower layer Super Output Area and Census Output Area)
- assessment status (Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reassessment indicator)
- claimant characteristics (age, gender, State Pension Age)
- primary disability category / sub category / low level disability category
- pre and post review mobility component and daily living component award levels
Further information
View an interactive dashboard of the latest PIP statistics by region.
Read more about the Personal Independence Payment quarterly statistics.