NI260 - A guide to Revision, Supersession and Appeal (April 2006)
Contents
- Terminology
- About this guide
- Decision makers
- Applying for a decision to be revised
- General
- Revision
- What happens after you apply
- Revision outside of the one month time limit
- What the Decision Maker can do where you have made an application for revision
- Supersession
- Supersession following a reasoned application
- What the Decision Maker can do following an application for supersession
- Supersession – change of circumstances
- Other circumstances where supersession may occur
- Superseding a tribunal’s or Commissioner’s decision
- Supersession – test cases
- Correction of accidental errors
- The appeals process
- About the Tribunals Service
- Tribunal members
- The clerk to the tribunal
- Making an appeal
- Who can appeal ?
- Decisions
- How to appeal
- Time limits for appeals
- Time limits for late appeals
- What happens when your appeal is received
- Action by the Decision Maker
- Withdrawing your appeal at the revision stage
- Appeal submissions
- Pre-hearing enquiry form
- Decisions to strike out appeals
- Reinstatement of struck out appeals
- At the hearing
- Oral and paper hearings
- Arranging the date for an oral hearing
- The tribunal
- What happens during the hearing
- Evidence
- Appeal tribunal decisions
- What to do if you think the tribunal’s decision is wrong
- Appealing to the Social Security Commissioners
- Social Security Commissioners
- What is an error in a point of law?
- Who can apply for leave to appeal?
- Secretary of State appeals
- Suspension of benefit pending a Secretary of State’s appeal to the Commissioner
- Claimant’s appeal
- How to apply for leave to appeal
- Late applications
- Applications where you do not have a statement of reasons
- Set aside
- If the chairman grants you leave to appeal
- If the chairman refuses you leave to appeal, does not accept your late application or rejects it because you do not have a written statement of reasons
- What happens when your application for leave to appeal is received by a Commissioner
- What happens to my appeal?
- If you do not follow up your appeal
- If you want to withdraw your application for leave to appeal or your appeal
- What happens if the claimant dies before a decision is made
- Representation and hearings
- Tribunal of Commissioners in cases of special difficulty
- The Commissioner’s decision
- Appealing against a Social Security Commissioner’s decision
- Correction and setting aside of a Commissioner’s decision
- Legal officers
- Decisions on other benefits and pensions
- Further information