Social Security Benefits: Appeals
(asked on 11th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on (a) Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Force tribunals since 2010, (b) incapacity benefit appeals between 2006 and 2008 and (c) ESA Work Force appeals between 2008 and 2010.
(a) The information is not available.
(b) In the Financial Year 06-07 and 07-08 we had a single Processing Appeals activity which was apportioned across the Benefit Processing Outputs. I have supplied the amount assigned to Incapacity Benefit Claims in the table below.
JCP ABM 06-07 YTD Mar 07 | 06-07 YTD | |
Process Appeals Activity | Incapacity Benefit Claims | £ 10,199,240.42 |
JCP ABM 07-08 YTD Mar 08 | 07-08 YTD | |
Process Appeals Activity | Incapacity Benefit Claims | £ 11,562,650.08 |
Data supplied is in financial years April - March
(c) The information requested is not available.