Social Security Benefits: Appeals
(asked on 17th July 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals to the Tribunals Service in (a) Glasgow South West constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK for (i) personal independence payments, (ii) employment and support allowance, (iii) income support, (iv) jobseekers allowance and (v) tax credits were successful in the latest period for which figures are available.
Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
The information provided below is a further breakdown of this data.
Proportion1 of appeals decided in favour of the appellant in the latest period for which figures are available April 2017 – March 2018 | |||||
| Personal Independence Payment (PIP)2 | Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)3 | Income Support (IS) | Jobseeker Allowance (JSA) | Tax Credits4 |
Glasgow5 | 62% | 71% | 33% | 63% | 38% |
Scotland | 58% | 69% | 27% | 69% | 30% |
Great Britain6 | 68% | 68% | 35% | 47% | 33% |
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1 Proportion of decisions in favour, based on the number of appeals found in favour of the appellant as a % of the cases cleared at tribunal hearing.
2 Personal Independence Payments (New Claim Appeals), which replaced Disability Living Allowance from 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments).
3 Includes Employment and Support Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Reassessments)
4 Tax Credits includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Working Tax Credit.
5 First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) appeals for Glasgow South West constituents are heard in the Glasgow venue but this venue also hears appeals from other Glasgow constituencies. It is not possible to provide constituency-specific data.
6HM Courts & Tribunals Service administers appeals for appellants living in England, Scotland and Wales. Data are therefore for those appellants only. The Northern Ireland Courts & Tribunals Service administers appeals for appellants living in Northern Ireland.
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.
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 the figure is only 8% of decisions made were appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.