Universal Credit: Appeals

(asked on 6th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of universal credit data collected by the First Tier Tribunal (Social Security & Child Support) which relates to (a) limited capability for work, (b) right to reside and (c) other issues.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 15th May 2020

Universal Credit (UC) is a benefit made up of component parts, known as ‘Elements’. An award of UC may comprise one or more Elements, depending on the circumstances of the claimant.

The Elements are:

- Standard allowance

- Child element

- Childcare costs

- Limited cap ability for work-related activity element (LCWRA)

- Carer element

- Housing costs element

For the period October to December 2019, the latest period for which data are available, LCWRA represented 66% of the Elements recorded against UC appeals.

Under each Element is a wide range of disputable issue types. The type of issue most closely corresponding to the category ‘right to reside’ is ‘habitual residence test’ (HRT).

As a proportion of the issues recorded under all Elements of all UC appeals, between October and December 2019, HRT was 7%, with issues other than HRT being 93%.

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