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Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Bell Ribeiro-AddyLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 28 July 2025UIN 69116

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit decisions made using (a) automated and (b) AI-assisted systems have been overturned on appeal since 2020.

Answered by Andrew Western

No Artificial Intelligence is currently deployed to make decisions regarding benefit entitlement or value in isolation. There is automation in some benefit processes but decisions regarding entitlement and value will have a human decision maker involved.

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