{
  "dataset": "Benefit appeal outcomes ordered by the published share revised in the claimant's favour",
  "quarter": "April to June 2026",
  "fiscalQuarter": "Q1 2026/27",
  "provisional": true,
  "source": {
    "name": "Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: April to June 2026",
    "publishedOn": "2026-09-10",
    "accessedOn": "2026-09-11",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2026",
    "tablesUrl": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aa18eb1c5796a7a179c658d/Tribunals_Statistics_Quarterly_Main_Tables_Q1_2026_27.ods",
    "tables": [
      "SSCS_2",
      "SSCS_3",
      "T_3"
    ]
  },
  "method": "One row per benefit type published in table SSCS_3, ordered by the percentage of disposals cleared at a hearing where the original decision was revised in favour of the claimant, highest first. Only benefit types with at least 100 disposals cleared at a hearing in the quarter are ordered, because a percentage of a handful of cases is noise. Counts and percentages are the publication's own figures for the quarter named on the page, copied from tables SSCS_2 and SSCS_3, with waiting times from table T_3. Nothing is recalculated and nothing is estimated. The percentage counts only cases cleared at a hearing: cases withdrawn, struck out or decided without a hearing are outside it, and cases cleared at a hearing include some withdrawn on the day.",
  "licence": "Contains public sector information from the Ministry of Justice and HM Courts and Tribunals Service, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "notPrediction": "These are outcomes of cases already decided in the quarter named. They are not a prediction about any individual appeal and must not be quoted as one.",
  "caveats": [
    "The share revised in favour counts only disposals cleared at a hearing. Cases withdrawn before a hearing, struck out or decided without a hearing are not in that percentage.",
    "Cases cleared at a hearing include some withdrawn at the hearing, so the upheld and in favour percentages do not always sum to 100.",
    "Figures for this quarter are marked provisional and are subject to revision in later publications.",
    "Disposal figures were revised to include Integrated List Assist disposals from the Cardiff region, applied back to April 2023, so they are higher than figures published previously.",
    "The publication changed how withdrawn and struck out cases are classified, with data revised back to April 2023, so hearing and non-hearing volumes are not comparable across that change.",
    "Adult Disability Payment in Scotland is devolved and is not in these figures."
  ],
  "allBenefitTypes": {
    "benefit": "All benefit types",
    "totalDisposals": 31275,
    "clearedAtHearing": 20242,
    "pctClearedAtHearing": 65,
    "decisionInFavour": 12131,
    "decisionUpheld": 8017,
    "pctInFavour": 60,
    "meanWeeks": 37,
    "medianBand": "30 weeks or less",
    "meanWeeksYearEarlier": 34
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "benefit": "Personal Independence Payment",
      "totalDisposals": 20278,
      "clearedAtHearing": 13123,
      "pctClearedAtHearing": 65,
      "decisionInFavour": 8781,
      "decisionUpheld": 4302,
      "pctInFavour": 67,
      "meanWeeks": 36,
      "medianBand": "28 weeks or less",
      "timelinessNote": null
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "benefit": "Disability Living Allowance",
      "totalDisposals": 1609,
      "clearedAtHearing": 1215,
      "pctClearedAtHearing": 76,
      "decisionInFavour": 719,
      "decisionUpheld": 492,
      "pctInFavour": 59,
      "meanWeeks": null,
      "medianBand": null,
      "timelinessNote": "Table T_3 does not publish a separate waiting time for this benefit. It sits inside the grouped all other benefit types row, mean 44 weeks, median 37 weeks or less."
    },
    {
      "position": 3,
      "benefit": "Child Support",
      "totalDisposals": 1514,
      "clearedAtHearing": 728,
      "pctClearedAtHearing": 48,
      "decisionInFavour": 415,
      "decisionUpheld": 295,
      "pctInFavour": 57,
      "meanWeeks": null,
      "medianBand": null,
      "timelinessNote": "Table T_3 does not publish a separate waiting time for this benefit. It sits inside the grouped all other benefit types row, mean 44 weeks, median 37 weeks or less."
    },
    {
      "position": 4,
      "benefit": "Employment and Support Allowance",
      "totalDisposals": 839,
      "clearedAtHearing": 497,
      "pctClearedAtHearing": 59,
      "decisionInFavour": 227,
      "decisionUpheld": 268,
      "pctInFavour": 46,
      "meanWeeks": 29,
      "medianBand": "20 weeks or less",
      "timelinessNote": null
    },
    {
      "position": 5,
      "benefit": "Universal Credit",
      "totalDisposals": 5728,
      "clearedAtHearing": 3952,
      "pctClearedAtHearing": 69,
      "decisionInFavour": 1796,
      "decisionUpheld": 2139,
      "pctInFavour": 45,
      "meanWeeks": 35,
      "medianBand": "29 weeks or less",
      "timelinessNote": null
    },
    {
      "position": 6,
      "benefit": "Attendance Allowance",
      "totalDisposals": 230,
      "clearedAtHearing": 157,
      "pctClearedAtHearing": 68,
      "decisionInFavour": 51,
      "decisionUpheld": 106,
      "pctInFavour": 32,
      "meanWeeks": null,
      "medianBand": null,
      "timelinessNote": "Table T_3 does not publish a separate waiting time for this benefit. It sits inside the grouped all other benefit types row, mean 44 weeks, median 37 weeks or less."
    },
    {
      "position": 7,
      "benefit": "Housing Benefit and Council Tax",
      "totalDisposals": 246,
      "clearedAtHearing": 151,
      "pctClearedAtHearing": 61,
      "decisionInFavour": 46,
      "decisionUpheld": 98,
      "pctInFavour": 30,
      "meanWeeks": null,
      "medianBand": null,
      "timelinessNote": "Table T_3 does not publish a separate waiting time for this benefit. It sits inside the grouped all other benefit types row, mean 44 weeks, median 37 weeks or less."
    }
  ]
}