§ Mr. BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many appeals, in respect of each benefit, were successful during the last 12 months where the claimant(a) had an oral hearing and was represented, (b) had an oral hearing and was not represented and (c) did not attend the hearing. [50182]
§ Mr. Keith BradleyThe information is set out in the table.
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Number of oral tribunal hearings where the appellant was successful and was represented, was not represented and did not attend Type of benefit Was represented1 Was not represented and attended alone Did not attend hearing2 All 21,132 15,543 6,784 Attendance Allowance 23 11 5 Child Benefit 53 63 66 Compensation Recovery Unit 3 2 0 Disablement Benefit 783 219 48 Disability Living Allowance 57 12 11 Disability Working Allowance 12 7 3 Family Credit 108 120 158 Guardians Allowance 0 1 0 Incapacity Benefit (IB): Not all work test 486 499 266 All work test 12,288 8,008 1,476 All work test (excl. IB) 2,243 2,051 580 Income Support 3,176 2,683 1,923 Industrial Death Benefit 0 0 0 Invalid Care Allowance 77 46 45 Invalidity Benefit (IVB) 151 51 16 IVB (Graham)1 1 0 0 Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA): JSA (hardship) 4 8 8 JSA (labour market) 129 379 798 JSA (payment) 226 365 479 Maternity Allowance 1 0 0 Maternity Benefit 1 4 3 One Parent Benefit 3 7 5 Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema 0 0 0 Reduced Earnings Allowance 16 5 0 Retirement Pension 29 20 20 Severe Disablement Allowance 62 38 18 SDA (foster)1 582 9 79 Sickness Benefit 25 12 5 Social Fund: Funeral payment 189 201 182 Maternity payment 6 13 15 Statutory Maternity Pay 2 1 0 Statutory Sick Pay 1 2 1 Supplementary Benefit: Single payment 9 5 4 Other payments1 35 2 6
Number of oral tribunal hearings where the appellant was successful and was represented, was not represented and did not attend Type of benefit Was represented1 Was not represented and attended alone Did not attend hearing2 Unemployment Benefit 250 650 543 Widows Benefit 25 17 15 Workmen's Compensation 0 0 0 Others 75 32 6 1Lookalike cases 2Oral hearings where the representative only, or the appellant and the representative attended. Notes:
1. Oral hearings where no-one attended. These figures do not include "paper determinations".
2. The period covered is 1 October 1996 to 30 September 1997.
Source:
The quarterly Social Security Appeal Tribunal Statistics published by DSS Analytical Services Divisions.