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<p>HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) monitors the number of panel members
required for Social Security and Child Support appeals. As a result, in 2017/18 and
2018/19 the Judicial Appointments Commission has been recruiting extra judicial office
holders to the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal, where Personal Independent
Payment appeals are heard, resulting in the following appointments: -</p><ul><li>250
fee paid judges (across the First-tier Tribunal)</li><li>16 salaried judges</li><li>125
disability qualified members</li><li>226 medical members</li></ul><p> </p><p>Panel
members who sit on Social Security and Child Support appeal panels hear appeals on
a range of benefits, one of which is Personal Independence Payment. Information is
not held centrally on levels of turnover specific to that benefit.</p><p> </p>
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