How long Carer's Allowance appeals are taking, January to March 2026
The publication does not give Carer's Allowance appeals a timeliness row of their own. They are counted inside the "All other benefit types" row, which took a mean of 44 weeks from receipt to clearance, with 36 weeks or less at the median. These figures describe cases that finished in that quarter. They do not predict how long any particular appeal will take, and they say nothing about what a tribunal will decide. The quarter is marked provisional.
How many Carer's Allowance appeals are in the queue
- Received in January to March 2026
- 92
- Open at the end of the quarter
- 241
Tables SSCS_1 and SSCS_4. Open caseload is a snapshot taken when the data was extracted, so it is not receipts minus disposals. A data quality issue identified in January 2026 may have over-reported open caseload by around 5,000 cases across the tribunal.
Who sits on the panel, and what that group's timings look like
Carer's Allowance appeals are heard by a panel described in the publication as "Judge only (Jobseeker's Allowance, Housing Benefit, Council Tax relief, Child Support, ESA or Incapacity Benefit with no medical element)". Cases in that group took a mean of 34 weeks, with 24 weeks or less at the median.
Table T_3, panel composition breakdown. The group covers more than one benefit, so it is context rather than a figure for Carer's Allowance alone.
Before the wait even starts
Carer's Allowance is decided by the Department for Work and Pensions. You normally have to ask for the decision to be looked at again before you can appeal, and there is a deadline on both steps.
How this page is built
Source: Tribunals statistics quarterly: January to March 2026, Ministry of Justice and HM Courts and Tribunals Service, published 11 June 2026, read on 4 September 2026. Timeliness runs from receipt of the appeal to the case being cleared and covers cases cleared in the quarter. Means and bands are copied from the published tables, not recalculated.
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