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Social Security Benefits: Appeals

Answer

The information requested is provided in the table below.

FYTD2	Greenock1
	Personal Independence Payment (PIP) 3.			Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).4
	Total Cleared5	Number cleared at hearing	Number cleared without a hearing	Total Cleared	Number cleared at hearing	Number cleared without a hearing
2013-2014	~	~	~	1186	1075	111
2014-2015	61	49	12	239	198	41
2015-2016	247	213	34	359	333	26
2016-2017	340	289	51	242	226	16
2017-20186	560	476	84	430	401	29

1. Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) data are normally registered to the venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. We cannot retrieve data based on the appellant’s actual address, but can produce reports detailing the numbers of cases that were dealt with at one of our Regional centres or heard at a specific venue. Inverclyde appeals are attributed to the Greenock venue, except Child Support (attributed to Glasgow).

2. By Financial Year - from April to March.

3. PIP replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged 16 to 64 from 8 April 2013. As such, volumes received by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in 2013-2014 are low. Data include PIP Reassessment.

4. Includes ESA and ESA (Reassessments)

5. The total number of Appeals disposed of, inclusive of both those cleared at hearing and those cleared without the need of a tribunal hearing.

6. Data April 17 to March 18 are provisional data and subject to change.

~ HMCTS has chosen not to provide an exact figure in cases where the true number falls between one and five. However, it should not be assumed that the actual figure represented falls at any particular point within this scale; 'five or fewer' is used as a replacement value from which it would be difficult to isolate or extract any individual data.

Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.

The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case management system on a different date.

Latest figures indicate that since PIP was introduced, more than 3.1 million decisions have been made, and of these under 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned. For ESA, 8% of decisions made were appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

166221

Session

2017-19

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Subjects

Appeals Employment and support allowance Inverclyde Personal independence payment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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