NI260 - A guide to Revision, Supersession and Appeal (April 2009)
Terminology
| Claimant | The person claiming or applying for benefit. |
| Decision Makers | The people who make the decisions about claims and applications for social security benefits on behalf of the Secretary of State. |
| Dependant | A child, young person or adult who depends on you to support them. |
| Dispute | The means by which a decision may be revised. |
| Expert witness | A person who has expertise in the area of your appeal who might be asked to help the tribunal members with your appeal. |
| Reconsideration | The process of looking at a decision again with a view to revising it. (This is not a statutory term.) |
| Revision | The means by which a decision can be changed from its original date following either a dispute made by the claimant or where the Decision Maker acts on their own initiative. |
| Set aside decision | A First-tier tribunal or Upper Tribunal’s decision which is cancelled. In most cases the appeal will be reheard. |
| Struck out appeals | Appeals that are turned down before going to a full hearing. |
| Supersession | The means by which a decision can be changed from a date after the original date either on application by the claimant or where the Decision Maker acts on his own initiative. |
