{
  "title": "PIP outcomes for DWP-coded chronic fatigue syndrome, England and Wales",
  "page": "https://finallyseen.org.uk/pip-statistics/me-cfs/evidence",
  "citation": "Finally Seen (2026). PIP outcomes for DWP-coded chronic fatigue syndrome, England and Wales. Analysis of DWP Stat-Xplore, 16 June 2026 release. https://finallyseen.org.uk/pip-statistics/me-cfs/evidence",
  "published": "26 August 2026",
  "lastUpdated": "28 August 2026",
  "nextRelease": "15 September 2026",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "DWP Stat-Xplore Open Data API",
    "release": "DWP quarterly PIP statistics, 16 June 2026 release",
    "basisClearances": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment",
    "basisCaseload": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics"
  },
  "clearanceOutcomeDefinitions": "Awarded counts clearances recorded as awarded at initial decision, at either the standard or enhanced rate and for either component. Disallowed counts clearances disallowed at initial decision, whether disallowed pre-assessment for failing to return the form or attend, or disallowed post-assessment on the points scored. Withdrawn clearances, and clearances with an unknown or not recorded outcome, are excluded from both columns and from the denominator, so Awarded plus Disallowed equals Decided exactly on every row.",
  "coverage": "England and Wales. Scotland has migrated to Adult Disability Payment. Northern Ireland is administered separately by the Department for Communities.",
  "codingNote": "DWP records this condition as Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). There is no separate myalgic encephalomyelitis category in the dataset, so these figures reflect DWP's coding and are not a measure of ME.",
  "national": {
    "caseload": 33554,
    "caseloadNewClaim": 25052,
    "caseloadDlaReassessment": 8502,
    "caseloadPeriod": "April 2026",
    "awardRateAllTime": "48.8%",
    "awardRateAllTimeDecisions": 50587,
    "awardRate12m": "49.3%",
    "awardRate12mDecisions": 5448,
    "awardRate12mWindow": "May 2025 to April 2026",
    "femaleShare": "79.8%",
    "enhancedDailyLivingShare": "41.8%",
    "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance",
    "caseloadBasis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance",
    "awardRateBasis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment",
    "caseloadRevisionNote": "An earlier extract of this same release gave the April 2026 caseload as 33,555. The current query gives 33,554. We publish the current figure.",
    "caseloadByYear": [
      {
        "year": "2019",
        "caseload": 16031,
        "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
      },
      {
        "year": "2020",
        "caseload": 18430,
        "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
      },
      {
        "year": "2021",
        "caseload": 20375,
        "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
      },
      {
        "year": "2022",
        "caseload": 22606,
        "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
      },
      {
        "year": "2023",
        "caseload": 25424,
        "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
      },
      {
        "year": "2024",
        "caseload": 28150,
        "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
      },
      {
        "year": "2025",
        "caseload": 30576,
        "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
      },
      {
        "year": "2026",
        "caseload": 33554,
        "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
      }
    ]
  },
  "byRegion": {
    "window": "May 2023 to April 2026",
    "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment",
    "totalDecisions": 17064,
    "spread": "12.9 percentage points",
    "note": "Regions with fewer than 200 decisions in the window are omitted. Scotland is excluded because it has migrated to Adult Disability Payment.",
    "clearanceOutcomeDefinitions": "Awarded counts clearances recorded as awarded at initial decision, at either the standard or enhanced rate and for either component. Disallowed counts clearances disallowed at initial decision, whether disallowed pre-assessment for failing to return the form or attend, or disallowed post-assessment on the points scored. Withdrawn clearances, and clearances with an unknown or not recorded outcome, are excluded from both columns and from the denominator, so Awarded plus Disallowed equals Decided exactly on every row.",
    "awardedSum": 8899,
    "reconciliationNote": "The Awarded column above sums to 8,899, while the award length section reports 8,907 awards for the identical window. The difference is awards in regions omitted from this table by the 200 decision rule. The two figures do not disagree.",
    "rows": [
      {
        "region": "Yorkshire and The Humber",
        "awarded": 1003,
        "disallowed": 760,
        "decided": 1763,
        "rate": "56.9%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "London",
        "awarded": 700,
        "disallowed": 539,
        "decided": 1239,
        "rate": "56.5%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "North West",
        "awarded": 1180,
        "disallowed": 970,
        "decided": 2150,
        "rate": "54.9%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "North East",
        "awarded": 411,
        "disallowed": 345,
        "decided": 756,
        "rate": "54.4%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "South East",
        "awarded": 1379,
        "disallowed": 1225,
        "decided": 2604,
        "rate": "53.0%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "East of England",
        "awarded": 1215,
        "disallowed": 1089,
        "decided": 2304,
        "rate": "52.7%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "South West",
        "awarded": 1671,
        "disallowed": 1673,
        "decided": 3344,
        "rate": "50.0%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "West Midlands",
        "awarded": 516,
        "disallowed": 573,
        "decided": 1089,
        "rate": "47.4%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "East Midlands",
        "awarded": 561,
        "disallowed": 656,
        "decided": 1217,
        "rate": "46.1%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "Wales",
        "awarded": 263,
        "disallowed": 335,
        "decided": 598,
        "rate": "44.0%",
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      }
    ]
  },
  "awardLength": {
    "window": "May 2023 to April 2026",
    "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment",
    "totalAwards": 8907,
    "rows": [
      {
        "band": "Short Term Award (no review date)",
        "awards": 35,
        "share": "0.4%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "band": "Up to and including 1 year",
        "awards": 205,
        "share": "2.3%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "band": "More than 1 and up to and including 2 years",
        "awards": 6292,
        "share": "70.6%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "band": "More than 2 and up to and including 3 years",
        "awards": 1627,
        "share": "18.3%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "band": "More than 3 and up to and including 4 years",
        "awards": 110,
        "share": "1.2%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "band": "More than 4 and up to and including 5 years",
        "awards": 235,
        "share": "2.6%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "band": "More than 5 and up to and including 6 years",
        "awards": 8,
        "share": "0.1%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "band": "More than 8 and up to and including 9 years",
        "awards": 7,
        "share": "0.1%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "band": "Ongoing Awards",
        "awards": 388,
        "share": "4.4%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      }
    ],
    "twoYearsOrLess": {
      "chronicFatigueSyndrome": {
        "share": "73.3%",
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      "allConditions": {
        "share": "73.9%",
        "denominator": 1107632,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      }
    },
    "ongoingAwardShare": [
      {
        "condition": "Rheumatoid arthritis",
        "share": "9.6%",
        "awards": 16999,
        "denominator": 16999,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "condition": "Multiple sclerosis",
        "share": "9.3%",
        "awards": 7520,
        "denominator": 7520,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "condition": "Chronic fatigue syndrome",
        "share": "4.4%",
        "awards": 8907,
        "denominator": 8907,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "condition": "Fibromyalgia",
        "share": "3.4%",
        "awards": 44891,
        "denominator": 44891,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "condition": "Autism",
        "share": "2.3%",
        "awards": 30197,
        "denominator": 30197,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "condition": "ADHD / ADD",
        "share": "0.6%",
        "awards": 24194,
        "denominator": 24194,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "condition": "Endometriosis",
        "share": "0.3%",
        "awards": 3489,
        "denominator": 3489,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "condition": "All conditions",
        "share": "6.9%",
        "awards": 1107632,
        "denominator": 1107632,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      }
    ]
  },
  "awardRateByYear": {
    "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment",
    "note": "The award rate rose by roughly thirteen percentage points between the year to April 2019 and the year to April 2025, then fell by five and a half points in the year to April 2026. These figures describe the movement only. They do not explain it.",
    "reconciliationNote": "The headline twelve month figure elsewhere on this page is 49.3% on 5,448 decisions. This later extract of the same release gives 49.2% on 5,451 decisions for the identical window. The difference is three decisions and one tenth of a percentage point. Both figures are kept as pulled rather than one being changed to match the other.",
    "rows": [
      {
        "window": "to Apr 2019",
        "rate": "41.9%",
        "awarded": 1271,
        "decided": 3035,
        "period": "to Apr 2019",
        "denominator": 3035,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "window": "to Apr 2020",
        "rate": "41.9%",
        "awarded": 1078,
        "decided": 2572,
        "period": "to Apr 2020",
        "denominator": 2572,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "window": "to Apr 2021",
        "rate": "42.4%",
        "awarded": 1402,
        "decided": 3306,
        "period": "to Apr 2021",
        "denominator": 3306,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "window": "to Apr 2022",
        "rate": "44.5%",
        "awarded": 1914,
        "decided": 4305,
        "period": "to Apr 2022",
        "denominator": 4305,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "window": "to Apr 2023",
        "rate": "46.8%",
        "awarded": 2593,
        "decided": 5546,
        "period": "to Apr 2023",
        "denominator": 5546,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "window": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "52.1%",
        "awarded": 3002,
        "decided": 5758,
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "denominator": 5758,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "window": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "54.7%",
        "awarded": 3226,
        "decided": 5894,
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "denominator": 5894,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "window": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "49.2%",
        "awarded": 2684,
        "decided": 5451,
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "denominator": 5451,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      }
    ]
  },
  "regionByYear": {
    "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment",
    "windows": [
      "to Apr 2024",
      "to Apr 2025",
      "to Apr 2026"
    ],
    "decisionThreshold": 200,
    "thresholdNote": "Cells marked below threshold have fewer than 200 decisions in the window, which is the threshold applied elsewhere on this page.",
    "readings": [
      "The broad pattern is fairly stable. London, Yorkshire and The Humber and the North West sit near the top of the range in most years, while Wales and the East Midlands sit near the bottom in most years.",
      "Individual regions move by between three and ten percentage points from one year to the next, so a single year's ranking is not reliable on its own.",
      "Nine of the ten regions fell in the most recent year, which matches the national fall over the same period, so the latest movement looks system wide rather than regional.",
      "One cell falls below the 200 decision threshold applied elsewhere on this page: Wales, year to April 2026, 175 decisions. It is marked in the table and should be read with that in mind."
    ],
    "rows": [
      {
        "region": "North East",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "52.0%",
        "decided": 254,
        "denominator": 254,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "North East",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "57.7%",
        "decided": 281,
        "denominator": 281,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "North East",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "52.9%",
        "decided": 221,
        "denominator": 221,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "North West",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "57.1%",
        "decided": 753,
        "denominator": 753,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "North West",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "55.8%",
        "decided": 763,
        "denominator": 763,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "North West",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "51.1%",
        "decided": 634,
        "denominator": 634,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "Yorkshire and The Humber",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "60.2%",
        "decided": 625,
        "denominator": 625,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "Yorkshire and The Humber",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "57.9%",
        "decided": 610,
        "denominator": 610,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "Yorkshire and The Humber",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "51.9%",
        "decided": 528,
        "denominator": 528,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "East Midlands",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "43.2%",
        "decided": 419,
        "denominator": 419,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "East Midlands",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "49.8%",
        "decided": 420,
        "denominator": 420,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "East Midlands",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "45.2%",
        "decided": 378,
        "denominator": 378,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "West Midlands",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "43.4%",
        "decided": 410,
        "denominator": 410,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "West Midlands",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "48.6%",
        "decided": 360,
        "denominator": 360,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "West Midlands",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "51.1%",
        "decided": 319,
        "denominator": 319,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "East of England",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "54.8%",
        "decided": 821,
        "denominator": 821,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "East of England",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "56.4%",
        "decided": 782,
        "denominator": 782,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "East of England",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "46.2%",
        "decided": 701,
        "denominator": 701,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "London",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "57.7%",
        "decided": 407,
        "denominator": 407,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "London",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "57.0%",
        "decided": 421,
        "denominator": 421,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "London",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "54.7%",
        "decided": 411,
        "denominator": 411,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "South East",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "53.2%",
        "decided": 832,
        "denominator": 832,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "South East",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "55.2%",
        "decided": 882,
        "denominator": 882,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "South East",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "50.4%",
        "decided": 890,
        "denominator": 890,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "South West",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "47.3%",
        "decided": 1010,
        "denominator": 1010,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "South West",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "54.7%",
        "decided": 1153,
        "denominator": 1153,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "South West",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "47.6%",
        "decided": 1181,
        "denominator": 1181,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "Wales",
        "period": "to Apr 2024",
        "rate": "45.8%",
        "decided": 216,
        "denominator": 216,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "Wales",
        "period": "to Apr 2025",
        "rate": "45.9%",
        "decided": 207,
        "denominator": 207,
        "belowThreshold": false,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      },
      {
        "region": "Wales",
        "period": "to Apr 2026",
        "rate": "39.4%",
        "decided": 175,
        "denominator": 175,
        "belowThreshold": true,
        "basis": "New claims only, excluding DLA reassessment"
      }
    ]
  },
  "caseloadSplits": {
    "period": "April 2026",
    "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance",
    "totalsNote": "The three tables in this section have slightly different totals, 33,545 for age, 33,555 for mobility component and 33,546 for claim duration, because of DWP's own rounding and suppression in the published tables. The totals are reported as pulled rather than being forced to agree.",
    "ageBand": {
      "total": 33545,
      "rows": [
        {
          "label": "16 to 19",
          "claimants": 821,
          "share": "2.4%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "20 to 24",
          "claimants": 1560,
          "share": "4.7%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "25 to 29",
          "claimants": 1865,
          "share": "5.6%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "30 to 34",
          "claimants": 2288,
          "share": "6.8%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "35 to 39",
          "claimants": 2826,
          "share": "8.4%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "40 to 44",
          "claimants": 3389,
          "share": "10.1%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "45 to 49",
          "claimants": 3643,
          "share": "10.9%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "50 to 54",
          "claimants": 4131,
          "share": "12.3%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "55 to 59",
          "claimants": 4442,
          "share": "13.2%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "60 to 64",
          "claimants": 3943,
          "share": "11.8%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "65 to 69",
          "claimants": 2763,
          "share": "8.2%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "70 to 74",
          "claimants": 1332,
          "share": "4.0%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "75 to 79",
          "claimants": 542,
          "share": "1.6%",
          "denominator": 33545,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        }
      ]
    },
    "mobilityComponent": {
      "total": 33555,
      "rows": [
        {
          "label": "Enhanced",
          "claimants": 18866,
          "share": "56.2%",
          "denominator": 33555,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "Standard",
          "claimants": 9313,
          "share": "27.8%",
          "denominator": 33555,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "Nil",
          "claimants": 5376,
          "share": "16.0%",
          "denominator": 33555,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        }
      ]
    },
    "claimDuration": {
      "total": 33546,
      "rows": [
        {
          "label": "Up to 3 months",
          "claimants": 1142,
          "share": "3.4%",
          "denominator": 33546,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "3 to 6 months",
          "claimants": 842,
          "share": "2.5%",
          "denominator": 33546,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "6 months to 1 year",
          "claimants": 1810,
          "share": "5.4%",
          "denominator": 33546,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "1 to 2 years",
          "claimants": 4206,
          "share": "12.5%",
          "denominator": 33546,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "2 to 3 years",
          "claimants": 4045,
          "share": "12.1%",
          "denominator": 33546,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "3 to 4 years",
          "claimants": 3250,
          "share": "9.7%",
          "denominator": 33546,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "4 to 5 years",
          "claimants": 2681,
          "share": "8.0%",
          "denominator": 33546,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        },
        {
          "label": "5 years and over",
          "claimants": 15570,
          "share": "46.4%",
          "denominator": 33546,
          "period": "April 2026",
          "basis": "All claimants, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "shortAwardsLongClaims": {
    "shareOfAwardsTwoYearsOrLess": "70.6%",
    "shareOfAwardsDenominator": 8907,
    "shareOfClaimantsFiveYearsOrMore": "46.4%",
    "shareOfClaimantsDenominator": 33546,
    "note": "The two figures come from different datasets on different bases. Award length is new claim decisions over the three year window, excluding DLA reassessment. Claim duration is the April 2026 caseload, including cases reassessed from Disability Living Allowance. They describe related but not identical populations."
  }
}