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<p>Information about clearance times for appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social
Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.</p><p>
</p><p>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 timeliness of (a) Personal Independence Payment (PIP), (b) Employment and
Support Allowance (ESA) and (f) Universal Credit (UC) appeals for hearing venues covering
(i) Coventry, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) England for the period January – March
2020, the latest period for which data are available.</p><p> </p><p>The table below
contains the requested information for (c) Income Support (IS), (d) Jobseeker’s Allowance
(JSA) and (e) Tax Credits:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Average length
of time to administer appeals (in weeks) for the period January to March 2020 (the
latest period for which data are available)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>IS</p></td><td><p>JSA</p></td><td><p>Tax
Credits<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West
Midlands<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>1.
</sup>Includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit.</p><p><sup>2.
</sup>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.</p><p><sup>3. </sup>Excludes
SSCS Scotland and Wales Regions.</p><p>0 Equals zero appeals were heard during the
period in question.</p><p>~ Equates to fewer than five appeals heard during the period
in question.</p><p>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.</p><p>The data may differ slightly to that
of the published statistics as these data were run on a different date.</p><p> </p><p>Waiting
times are calculated from receipt of an appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is
not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the
appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed
by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after
an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often
at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier
date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal,
to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.</p>
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