Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Appeals
(asked on 15th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of appeals for judgments made under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme have been successful since 2010.
The number of appeals made under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) cleared by claim type, outcome and financial year are listed in Table 4 of the AFCS Statistics available on gov.uk at the following link:
The following table is extracted from Table 4 and lists the total number of injury appeals cleared and their outcome from April 2010 to March 2021.
Claim Type | Outcome | Apr 10 - Mar 21 |
Injury Appeals |
|
|
Number of People |
| 6,875 |
|
| 0 |
Number of Injury Appeals | All1 | 7,425 |
| New | 855 |
| Increased | 1,235 |
| Maintained | 3,475 |
| Reduced | 50 |
| Favourable Reconsideration | 1,715 |
| Disallowed - Late appeal | 25 |
| Overturned by Upper Tier Tribunal | 0 |
| Out of jurisdiction | 55 |
The total number of appeals that resulted in a new award, increased award or a favourable reconsideration is 3,805 equating to 51.25% of all injury appeals. During the same period 89,260 injury claims were cleared.2 Whilst some of the decisions made on those claims may yet be appealed in future years, the number of favourable appeals compared with the total number of injury claims equates to 4.26%.
Source: Compensation and Pensions System (CAPS)
- Please see the Background Quality Report at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-financial-year-202021 for more information on appeal outcomes.
- Extracted from Table 2 of the official statistics at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-financial-year-202021