Social Security Benefits: Appeals
(asked on 22nd January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people waited (a) less than one month, (b) less than two months, (c) less than three months, (d) less than four months, (e) less than five months, (f) less than six months and (g) six months or more for mandatory reconsideration in each year since 2010.
The information requested is shown in the table below:
Mandatory Reconsiderations cleared within each time period | ||||||||
- | 1 month | 2 months | 3 months | 4 months | 5 months | 6 months | 6 months + | Total |
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015 | 158,700 | 67,800 | 31,200 | 3,900 | 1,300 | 600 | 500 | 264,000 |
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016 | 225,800 | 3,900 | 2,300 | 700 | 200 | 100 | 300 | 233,100 |
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017 | 264,900 | 5,500 | 4,600 | 2,000 | 1,300 | 200 | 300 | 278,700 |
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017 | 209,300 | 7,700 | 1,000 | 500 | 900 | 500 | 700 | 220,700 |
Notes:
The data provided relates to all DWP benefits apart from Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Child Maintenance Group and Personal Independence Payment who do not record clearance time data in this format.
The data provided is counting the number of Mandatory Reconsideration claims cleared within each given time period, no claim will appear in more than one column.
- Less than one calendar month
- More than 1 month less than 2 months etc.
- More than 6 calendar months
The calculation for a cleared claim is the number of days from the Mandatory Reconsideration being received by the Department to the date a decision was made.
The data has been provided in financial years, 01st April to 31st March with the exception of this financial year which runs from 01st April to 31st December
Data is only available from 1 April 2014. This is because The Social Security, Child Support (Decision and Appeals) Regulations 1999, were amended on 28th October 2013 and only from then could the Secretary of State require a person to apply for a decision to be revised (i.e. apply for a mandatory reconsideration), before appeal. Pre October 2013 data is not comparable to current volumes. Volumes from October 2013 – April 2014 (initial Appeals Reform roll-out) were small and so not reflective of normal trend.
Annual figures cannot be directly compared to each other as different benefits have been included over time for example Universal Credit (UC) did not commence until November 2014
Source:
Decision Making and Appeals Case Recorder (DMACR)
The data provided is internal management information that does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.