Social Security Benefits and Welfare Tax Credits: Appeals
(asked on 28th August 2020) - 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) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England which related to (i) personal independence payments, (ii) employment and support allowance, (iii) income support, (iv) jobseeker's allowance, (v) tax credits and (vi) universal credit were successful in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Information about the outcomes of appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about the outcomes of (i) Personal Independence Payment (PIP), (ii) Employment Support Allowance (ESA) and (vi) Universal Credit (UC) appeals for hearing venues covering (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England for the period January – March 2020, the latest period for which data are available.
The table below contains the requested information for (iii) Income Support (IS), (iv) Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) and (v) Tax Credits:
Proportion1 of appeals decided in favour of the appellant for the period January to March 2020 (the latest period for which data are available) | |||
| IS | JSA | Tax Credits2 |
Coventry | 0% | ~ | 0% |
West Midlands3 | ~ | ~ | 41% |
England4 | 35% | 43% | 36% |
1. Proportion based on the number of cases found in favour of the appellant at a tribunal hearing, as a percentage of the cases heard at a tribunal hearing.
2. Includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit.
3. SSCS data are recorded by the office that dealt with the case, and if the case went to oral hearing, the location of the tribunal hearing, normally the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. Cases relating to the West Midlands region are attributed to the following SSCS venues: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Coventry, Nuneaton, Stoke, Shrewsbury, Hereford and Worcester.
4. Excludes SSCS Scotland Region and Wales Region.
~ Equates to a value where cases heard were fewer than five.
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 available.
The data may differ slightly to that of the published statistics as these data were run on a different date.