Written answers
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Department of Social Protection
Invalidity Pension Application Numbers
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details of numbers of persons who applied for invalidity pension; numbers of those who were refused and those who were granted in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; of those who were refused the numbers who appealed the decision and the numbers who were successful and unsuccessful in those appeals. [3166/13]
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Table 1
| INVALIDITY PENSION CLAIMS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Received | Awarded | Disallowed | Total decided |
2009 | 7475 | 4580 | 2933 | 7513 |
2010 | 8774 | 3445* | 3411* | 7614 |
2011 | 14621 | 2107# | 4697# | 12829 |
2012 | 11510 | 6352 | 11423 | 17775 |
A breakdown of Invalidity claims awarded and disallowed is not available from December 2010-June 2011. A dual payments system was in operation from December 2010 until all claims were migrated onto a new computer platform in May 2011. | ||||
Table 2
| Year | Opening Balance | Appeals Lodged | Revised Deciding Officer Decision(*) | Total Decided by Appeals Office | Appeals Allowed | Appeals Partly Allowed | Appeals Disallowed | Appeals Withdrawn | Closing Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | 310 | 642 | 82 | 403 | 243 | 1 | 136 | 23 | 467 |
2010 | 467 | 1,024 | 185 | 694 | 341 | 6 | 314 | 33 | 612 |
2011 | 612 | 2,285 | 345 | 970 | 408 | 6 | 489 | 67 | 1,582 |
2012 | 1,582 | 4,765 | 474 | 1,517 | 1,031 | 4 | 430 | 52 | 4,356 |
(*) Where a person has received a decision to disallow a payment, it is open to them to ask for a review by a deciding officer. These figures reflect those cases where a disallowed claim was revised on review by a deciding officer prior to determination by an Appeals Officer. Generally these cases arise where a person submits additional information, not already considered, in support of their claim following a decision to disallow.
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