Found: Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
Correspondence Apr. 12 2024
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: The Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland - Client experience of Social Security Scotland’s redetermination
Nov. 23 2023
Source Page: Figures on the amount of benefits and appeals in 2022: FOI releaseFound: Figures on the amount of benefits and appeals in 2022: FOI release
Mentions:
1: Stevenson, Collette (SNP - East Kilbride) It amends the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 to make changes to the Scottish social security system - Speech Link
2: None social security system. - Speech Link
3: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) social security system. - Speech Link
4: None Security Scotland, and so that any on-going benefits are not affected. - Speech Link
5: None One feature of the social security principles is the declaration that“social security is itself a human - Speech Link
6: None There is an insistence by Social Security Scotland that mandatory redeterminations and appeals be made - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Doris, Bob (SNP - Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) to the Scottish social security system. - Speech Link
2: None For all Social Security Scotland’s good intentions, that can carry over to the devolved benefits, so - Speech Link
3: McNair, Marie (SNP - Clydebank and Milngavie) To what extent does the bill align with the social security principles? - Speech Link
4: None However, overall, the bill aligns quite well with social security principles. - Speech Link
5: None for Social Security Scotland to look at the backdating rules, allowing for late applications for benefits - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: McNair, Marie (SNP - Clydebank and Milngavie) Security Scotland benefit appeals? - Speech Link
2: None We have not had enough Social Security Scotland appeals to be able to comment on that. - Speech Link
3: None I took a couple of straw polls over a length of time, and the view is that Social Security Scotland appeals - Speech Link
4: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) Would it be for Social Security Scotland to change its procedures? - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 04 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: While many questions remain about the adequacy of current social security provision for children and
Correspondence Mar. 18 2024
Committee: Social Justice and Social Security CommitteeFound: VoiceAbility - Client experience of Social Security Scotland’s redetermination and appeals process Submission
Mentions:
1: Stevenson, Collette (SNP - East Kilbride) Our next agenda item is an evidence session on the client experience of Social Security Scotland’s redetermination - Speech Link
2: Doris, Bob (SNP - Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) —[Official Report, Social Justice and Social Security Committee, 28 March 2024; c 16.]She also said, - Speech Link
3: None We have actively recruited additional resources into the team at Social Security Scotland. - Speech Link
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions a decision made by his Department on a person's eligibility for industrial injuries disablement benefits has been found to be incorrect or unsuitable in the last 12 months.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
We have determined this query as relating to Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefits (IIDB) disputes, i.e. Mandatory Reconsiderations and Appeals.
Decisions can be overturned at a later stage in the claim journey for a number of reasons - it does not necessarily mean that the original decision was incorrect. The main reasons that decisions are overturned on appeal are: tribunals drawing a different conclusion based on the same evidence, cogent oral evidence given by the individual, or new written evidence provided at the hearing.
From October 2022 to September 2023 inclusive, 1,100 IIDB Mandatory Reconsiderations were completed. In 100 of these the decision was changed.
Information on First-tier Tribunal appeals is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics .
Specifically, information on the number of appeal receipts, disposals and outcomes of IIDB appeals, can be found in the Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) tables: SSCS_1, SSCS_2 and SSCS_3 of the Main Tables.