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<p>Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals - including (i) Personal
Independence Payment (PIP) and (ii) Employment Support Allowance (ESA) - to 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>Since PIP was introduced 3.5m decisions have been made up to June 2018, of
these 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.</p><p> </p><p>Between April
2014 – March 2018, 3.5m ESA (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been
made, of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.</p><p> </p><p>SSCS
appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address.
The published csv files (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information
about the outcomes of PIP and ESA appeals for hearing venues covering (a) Coventry,
(b) the West Midlands and (c) England for the period April to June 2018, the latest
period for which data are available.</p><p>The table below contains the requested
information for (iii) Income Support (IS), (iv) Job Seekers Allowance (JSA), (v) Tax
Credits and (vi) Universal Credit (UC):</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Proportion<sup>1</sup>
of appeals decided in favour of the appellant for the period April to June 2018 (the
latest period for which data are available)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>IS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>JSA</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Tax
Credits<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UC</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Coventry
</strong></p></td><td><p>43%</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>71%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>West
Midlands<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>27%</p></td><td><p>23%</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England<sup>4</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li>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</li><li>Includes Working
Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Working Tax Credit.</li><li>West Midlands
includes the venues: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Coventry, Nuneaton, Stoke,
Telford, Hereford and Worcester.</li><li>Excludes SSCS Scotland Region and Wales Region.</li></ol><p>~
Equates to value lower than 5</p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing
the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-</p><p>scale
case management system and are the best data that are available.</p><p>These data
may differ slightly from that of the published statistics as these data were run on
a different date.</p>
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