Please see the attached FOI response. Has anyone shared comparable data already?
Since its inception, the average success rate of appeals to the Social Security Chamber has been 51.7%. In the last 18 months (when the number of ADP appeals really started to take off) it has been consistently around 53-54%.
The data appears to suggest that in only the first 32 weeks of the current reporting year, the Social Security Chamber has experienced an increase in appeals by 322% compared with the entire reporting year 2023-2024. To put this another way, the SSC has already received almost 3 times as many appeals this year as it did across the 5 preceding years.
This is unlikely to be surprising given that ADP was rolled out in 2022/23, case transfers from DWP are nearing completion, the apparent processing times on determinations and re-determinations, and the apparent waiting times between lodgement of appeals and oral hearings. I’m awaiting further data confirming the numbers of withdrawn and undisposed appeals.
The data appears to show that the SSC may have more than 3,000 unheard cases, more than twice the total number of receipts in 2023/24.
It would also be interesting to have granulated data on a benefit-by-benefit basis. I believe the data likely suggests that ADP appellants enjoy significantly less success than PIP appellants. (I believe PIP appeals currently have a roughly 70% success rate.)
The FTS doesn’t appear to freely report its annual stats yet in the way the FTT does.
[ Edited: 19 Nov 2024 at 11:24 am by Greg ]
