Chapter 3 - Health
                             
Table 3.22 Number of claims registered by claim type and financial year under the Armed Forces
                        Compensation Scheme1,2,3
Claims are dealt with by the Service Personnel & Veterans Agency (SPVA) and requests can be made for an internal reconsideration. Requests to appeal are made externally to the independent Pensions Appeal Tribunal following the outcome of all claim types. If an appeal is requested before a reconsideration has been conducted, the reconsideration will be generated automatically and an outcome must be obtained before an appeal can be launched.

The number of claims, reconsiderations and appeals registered under the AFCS since the scheme began have continued to increase year on year. This is due to an increasing awareness of the scheme, as well as increasing numbers who are eligible to claim, i.e. Service related injury/illness with an incident/onset date on or after 6 April 2005.

The data in this table are not National Statistics, because they have not been designated as such by the Ministry of Defence.
          Claims registered during:
        Interim System   CAPS
Claim Type
 All Years     6 Apr 05 - 31 Oct 05   1 Nov 05 - 31 Mar 06   2006/07   2007/08   2008/09 4
                             
Claims
 10 915 p   220 || 300   1 665   3 545   5 190 p
                             
Injury Claims
 10 480 p   185 || 270   1 540   3 410   5 070 p
 
In-Service
 5 915 p   95 || 135   730   1 790   3 165 p
 
Medical Discharge
 2 195 p   80 || 120   610   635   755 p
 
Post Service
 2 195 p   10 || 20   200   940   1 030 p
 
Additional Claim
 165 p   ~ || -   ~   40   120 p
 
                            
Survivors' Claims5
 435 p   35 || 25   120   130   120 p
 
Death In-Service
 420 p   35 || 25   120   130   110 p
 
Death Post Service
 5 p   ~ || -   -   ~   ~ p
 
Additional Child
 10 p   ~ || -   ~   -   ~ p
 
 
                          
Reconsiderations
 1 025 p   20 || -   125   260   620 p
 
                            
Appeals
 470 p   10 || -   40   120   300 p
Source: DASA(Health Information)
1.  These figures exclude all "spanning cases"; claims considered first for entitlement under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, but passed to the War      Pension Scheme where the cause or injury occurred prior to 6 April 2005. There were 880 spanning cases registered in 2005/06, 2,545 spanning cases      registered in 2006/07, 2,575 spanning cases registered in 2007/08 and 2,405p spanning cases registered in 2008/09.
2.  Some figures may differ from previous published figures due to improvements in data processing.
3.  Between 6 April 2005 and 31 October 2005, claims registered under the AFCS were stored by the SPVA on an interim data system. From 1 November 2005
     onwards the AFCS data was stored on the Compensation and Pension System (CAPS). Figures have been presented separatetely for data stored on the
     two systems.
4.  Claims registered in 2008/09 are provisional, as claims registered at the end of 2008/09 may not have an outcome, and may go on to become spanning
     cases. The total number of registered claims will not increase but may decrease if any claims become spanning cases, and therefore the number of
     spanning cases may also increase. For the financial year 2008/09, there are 1,075 registered claims with pending outcomes.
5.  A single survivor's claim may result in an award which gives entitlement to one or more Survivors' Guaranteed Income Payments.