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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
This content was last updated:
01 Dec 2025
Chapter 69: Determinations, redeterminations and appeals
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
Part 10: Scottish social security benefits
Chapter 69: Determinations, redeterminations and appeals
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Chapter 69: Determinations, redeterminations and appeals
Key facts
1. Determinations of entitlement
If you do not get a determination after you make a claim
2. Redeterminations
Who can request a redetermination
How to request a redetermination
Time limits to request a redetermination
After you request a redetermination
Time limit for a redetermination to be carried out
3. Other ways to get a determination changed
If you do not get a determination
If there was an official error
If your award may no longer be correct
If your award is being reviewed
Changes of circumstances
If your award was too high due to an error
If the previous determination was made in ignorance of a material fact
If your previous benefit award changes
4. Appealing to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland
Who can appeal
How to appeal
Making sure your appeal is valid
Time limit to appeal
If you miss the time limit
After you appeal
The response
Providing additional information
What the First-tier Tribunal can do
Sisting appeals
When your appeal can be dismissed
Withdrawing an appeal
New determinations after you appeal
How your appeal is decided
The tribunal’s decision
The statement of reasons
If you disagree with the tribunal’s decision
Requesting a review
If Social Security Scotland requests a review
How the First-tier Tribunal carries out a review
The review decision
If you disagree with a review decision
5. Appeals to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland and the Court of Session
How to appeal to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland
Applying to the First-tier Tribunal for permission
Applying to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland for permission
What the Upper Tribunal for Scotland can do
Upper Tribunal for Scotland Hearings
Upper Tribunal for Scotland decisions
Reviews of Upper Tribunal for Scotland decisions
Appeals to the Court of Session
6. Short-term assistance
Who can get short-term assistance
The amount of benefit
Claims
Getting paid, tax and other benefits
7. Appealing about process decisions
How to appeal against a process decision
The time limit for appealing
If you miss the time limit to appeal against a process decision
What happens after you appeal
Decisions about appeals against process decisions
This chapter applies to the Scottish benefits listed on
here
. The information in this chapter also applies to carer’s allowance supplement, but only if you have to claim it because you live outside the UK (see
here
).
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s81(2A) and (9)-(15) SS(S)A 2018; Part 2 and Sch 2 CASYCG(RRPP) Regs; reg 2(c) and rr1, 20B and 22(1)(c) FTT(S) Rules; reg 3(c) UT(S) Rules; reg 3(2)(c) FTTS(AFSSC) Regs
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s81(2A) and (9)-(15) SS(S)A 2018; Part 2 and Sch 2 CASYCG(RRPP) Regs; reg 2(c) and rr1, 20B and 22(1)(c) FTT(S) Rules; reg 3(c) UT(S) Rules; reg 3(2)(c) FTTS(AFSSC) Regs
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CPAG. "Chapter 69: Determinations, redeterminations and appeals." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 4, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266291CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Chapter 69: Determinations, redeterminations and appeals." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 4, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266291CITANCHOR.
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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Publication date:
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