Select Committee on Social Security Minutes of Evidence


Annex K

SUMMARY OF SOCIAL FUND REVIEW APPLICATIONS 1999-2000
CCGBL CLTotal
Number of applications for first review 116,99891,80046,329 255,127
Number of decisions revised at first review 46,00912,55615,284 73,849
Percentage3914 3329
Number of applications for SFI review17,724 8,0317,98933,744
IRS Decisions17,609 8,3578,05934,025
Number of SFO decisions reviewed17,359 8,2607,98933,608
Number of SFO decisions confirmed10,859 6,3476,84424,050
Percentage confirmed63 778672
Number of decisions substituted by SFI 6,0141,6991,067 8,775
Percentage substituted35 211326
Number referred for redetermination222 5832312
Percentage referred for redetermination 110.4 1
Total number of Reviews resulting in a revised decision 6,2361,7571,094 9,087

Notes:

  1.  BL and CCG decisions from the IRS include 3,261 cases received as applications to the fund as a whole, which affects the BL and CCG numbers.

  2.  This does not include 341 decisions made under section 66(5) of the Act. The IRS changed the method of recording the decisions so that they cannot be broken down into confirmed, substituted or referred back.


 
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