{
  "dataset": "Benefit appeal tribunal waiting times (Great Britain)",
  "edition": "2025-26-q4",
  "publication": "Tribunals statistics quarterly: January to March 2026",
  "quarter": "January to March 2026",
  "prior_year_quarter": "January to March 2025",
  "provisional": true,
  "published_on": "2026-06-11",
  "accessed_on": "2026-09-04",
  "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026",
  "tables_url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a5f9bbb47af652afa0c899e/Tribunals_Statistics_Quarterly_Q4_2025_26_accessible_tables.ods",
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
    "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information from the Ministry of Justice and HM Courts and Tribunals Service, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."
  },
  "caveats": [
    "Means and band wording are the publication's own and are never recalculated here.",
    "The figures describe cases cleared in the quarter, not cases still waiting, so they are not a prediction of how long any individual appeal will take.",
    "The figures say nothing about what a tribunal will decide in any case.",
    "Adult Disability Payment in Scotland is devolved and is not in these figures."
  ],
  "jurisdiction_clearance": [
    {
      "label": "Social Security and Child Support",
      "sourceTable": "T_2",
      "meanWeeks": 35,
      "lowerQuartile": "16 weeks or less",
      "median": "28 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "55 weeks or less",
      "meanWeeksYearEarlier": 32,
      "changeWording": "3 week increase",
      "note": "This is the tribunal that hears PIP, ESA, Universal Credit, DLA and Attendance Allowance appeals."
    },
    {
      "label": "Employment Tribunal, single claims on the Reform system",
      "sourceTable": "T_2",
      "meanWeeks": 36,
      "lowerQuartile": "19 weeks or less",
      "median": "32 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "50 weeks or less",
      "meanWeeksYearEarlier": 23,
      "changeWording": "13 week increase",
      "note": "Single claims on the Reform case system only. The publication says these figures are not comparable with earlier versions of the table that included legacy cases."
    },
    {
      "label": "First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)",
      "sourceTable": "T_2",
      "meanWeeks": 61,
      "lowerQuartile": null,
      "median": null,
      "upperQuartile": null,
      "meanWeeksYearEarlier": 50,
      "changeWording": "11 week increase",
      "note": "The publication has withdrawn the quartile measures for this chamber while its timeliness method is reviewed. Means are unaffected."
    }
  ],
  "benefit_clearance": [
    {
      "label": "All benefit types",
      "sourceTable": "T_3",
      "meanWeeks": 35,
      "lowerQuartile": "16 weeks or less",
      "median": "28 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "55 weeks or less"
    },
    {
      "label": "Personal Independence Payment",
      "sourceTable": "T_3",
      "meanWeeks": 36,
      "lowerQuartile": "16 weeks or less",
      "median": "29 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "56 weeks or less"
    },
    {
      "label": "Employment and Support Allowance",
      "sourceTable": "T_3",
      "meanWeeks": 28,
      "lowerQuartile": "9 weeks or less",
      "median": "19 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "41 weeks or less"
    },
    {
      "label": "Universal Credit",
      "sourceTable": "T_3",
      "meanWeeks": 28,
      "lowerQuartile": "14 weeks or less",
      "median": "20 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "37 weeks or less"
    },
    {
      "label": "All other benefit types",
      "sourceTable": "T_3",
      "meanWeeks": 44,
      "lowerQuartile": "21 weeks or less",
      "median": "36 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "56 weeks or less",
      "note": "This row is where Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Carer's Allowance, Child Support and every smaller benefit sit. The publication does not break them out separately for timeliness."
    }
  ],
  "panel_clearance": [
    {
      "label": "Judge, medical member and/or specialist disability member (DLA, Attendance Allowance, PIP)",
      "sourceTable": "T_3",
      "meanWeeks": 36,
      "lowerQuartile": "16 weeks or less",
      "median": "30 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "56 weeks or less"
    },
    {
      "label": "Judge and medical member (ESA, Incapacity Benefit)",
      "sourceTable": "T_3",
      "meanWeeks": 25,
      "lowerQuartile": "9 weeks or less",
      "median": "18 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "33 weeks or less"
    },
    {
      "label": "Judge only (Jobseeker's Allowance, Housing Benefit, Council Tax relief, Child Support, ESA or Incapacity Benefit with no medical element)",
      "sourceTable": "T_3",
      "meanWeeks": 34,
      "lowerQuartile": "14 weeks or less",
      "median": "24 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "47 weeks or less"
    },
    {
      "label": "Judge and senior medical member (Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, Vaccine Damage)",
      "sourceTable": "T_3",
      "meanWeeks": 48,
      "lowerQuartile": "24 weeks or less",
      "median": "38 weeks or less",
      "upperQuartile": "59 weeks or less"
    }
  ],
  "benefit_volumes": [
    {
      "label": "Personal Independence Payment",
      "receipts": 27045,
      "openCaseload": 69010
    },
    {
      "label": "Universal Credit",
      "receipts": 9058,
      "openCaseload": 21214
    },
    {
      "label": "Disability Living Allowance",
      "receipts": 4271,
      "openCaseload": 9577
    },
    {
      "label": "Child Support",
      "receipts": 1794,
      "openCaseload": 6350
    },
    {
      "label": "Employment and Support Allowance",
      "receipts": 893,
      "openCaseload": 2017
    },
    {
      "label": "Attendance Allowance",
      "receipts": 414,
      "openCaseload": 800
    },
    {
      "label": "Child Benefit (lone parent)",
      "receipts": 220,
      "openCaseload": 435
    },
    {
      "label": "Housing Benefit and Council Tax",
      "receipts": 172,
      "openCaseload": 1327
    },
    {
      "label": "Tax-Free Childcare Scheme",
      "receipts": 112,
      "openCaseload": 264
    },
    {
      "label": "Pension Credit",
      "receipts": 99,
      "openCaseload": 259
    },
    {
      "label": "Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit",
      "receipts": 93,
      "openCaseload": 242
    },
    {
      "label": "Carer's Allowance",
      "receipts": 92,
      "openCaseload": 241
    },
    {
      "label": "Jobseeker's Allowance",
      "receipts": 76,
      "openCaseload": 151
    }
  ],
  "social_security_totals": {
    "receipts": 44683,
    "openCaseload": 113099
  }
}