Employment and Support Allowance: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments
Work Capability Assessment outcomes, appeals and mandatory reconsiderations for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claims.
This collection brings together statistics on:
- ESA Work Capability Assessment outcomes
- appeals decisions and mandatory reconsiderations for ESA claims (including re-assessed Incapacity Benefit claims)
- monthly median ESA Work Capability Assessment mandatory reconsiderations clearance times
- ESA WCA cohort statistics covering the ESA Work Capability Assessment process
- ESAÂ Work Capability Assessment clearance times for initial claims
Data is released on a quarterly basis through .
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2025.
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Added the latest release ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: December 2024.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: September 2024.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals statistics: June 2024.
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New link to stat-Xplore added along with updated progress date.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2024.
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Added a note to the page about an issue with the statistics about customer journey clearance times for initial claims.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: December 2023.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: September 2023.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: June 2023.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2023.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: December 2022.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: September 2022.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: June 2022.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2022.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: December 2021.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: September 2021.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: June 2021.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2021.
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Added a note about the information in the next release of statistics, due to be published on 11 March 2020.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: January 2021.
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Updated the note about the next release of Employment and Support Allowance Work Capability Assessment statistics (due for release on 14 January 2021). »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp updated note includes information about what will be included in the next release.
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Added a note that that the next release of Employment and Support Allowance Work Capability Assessment statistics has been delayed and will now be released on 14 January 2021.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: September 2020.
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Added a link to the latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: June 2020.
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Added latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: December 2019.
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Added latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: December 2019.
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Note added that the next release of these statistics will be on 13 December 2019.
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Added latest release of ESA statistics: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: September 2019.
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Added latest release of ESA statistics for outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals
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Added latest release of ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2019 statistics.
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Added latest release of ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: December 2018 statistics.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: September 2018' to the latest release section.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: June 2018' to the latest release section.
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Added information about planned improvements to the Work Capability Assessment statistics.
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Added a note stating that DWP is investigating a discrepancy with the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including Mandatory Reconsiderations and Appeals: March 2018'.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including Mandatory Reconsiderations and Appeals: December 2017'.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including Mandatory Reconsiderations and Appeals: September 2017'.
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Published a note that the next release of these statistics on 14 September 2017 will also include information on ESA WCA clearance times for initial claims.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: June 2017'.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2017'.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: December 2016'.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: September 2016'.
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Added statistics on 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments: claims made to Sep 2015 and appeals to Mar 2016'.
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Updated message about the delay to the 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments' statistics, which will now be published on 6 July 2016.
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Published 'ESA Work Capability Assessment mandatory reconsiderations: data to April 2016' and message about a delay to 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments' which were due to be published on 9 June 2016.
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Added - ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments: claims made to June 2015 and appeals to December 2015.
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Published 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments: claims made to Mar 2015 and appeals to Sept 2015'.
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Added - ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments: claims made to Dec 2014 and appeals to Jun 2015.
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Published latest statistics on the outcomes of Work Capability Assessments for Employment and Support Allowance claims made to September 2014 and appeals to March 2015.
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Added statistics on 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments: claims made to June 2014 and appeals to Dec 2014'.
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Updated date of next statistical release to 12 March 2015.
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Added 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessment: claims made to March 2014 and appeals to Sept 2014'.
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Published statistics on Work Capability Assessments for claims started October to December 2013, and appeals data to June 2014.
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Published ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments June 2014. Updated advice on processing error.
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Removed old guidance on future DWP publications being aligned with Ministry of Justice release schedule.
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Published note regarding a processing error with Appeal data for the period June to December 2013.
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Published ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments March 2014
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Specific policies and statements related to the DWP Employment and Support Allowance: outcomes of Work Capability Assessment statisticspublished and link added to the page.
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ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments January 2014 statistics published
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Update added regarding future statistical releases
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Updated information regarding appeals and release of statistics.
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Published 'ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments October 2013' statistics and user views questionnaire.
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