Hesse: Social courts will handle more than 22,000 procedures in 2021

Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Hesse's social courts settled slightly more lawsuits in 2021 than in the previous year.

Hesse: Social courts will handle more than 22,000 procedures in 2021

Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Hesse's social courts settled slightly more lawsuits in 2021 than in the previous year. As reported by the State Statistical Office in Wiesbaden on Wednesday, a total of 22,046 cases and thus 1.2 percent more lawsuits were processed than in 2020. The majority of the completed procedures related to health insurance (36 percent), followed by lawsuits relating to the Social Security Code (17.7 percent). and legal disputes about the degree of disability (12.8 percent).

Social courts are special administrative courts. They decide on legal disputes under public law that affect social security. These are in particular matters of statutory pension, accident and health insurance, the Federal Employment Agency, the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act and the law on severely disabled persons.