The purpose of this article was to analyze the separate opinions submitted to judgments of administrative courts in cases of social security benefits issued in the years 2004–2021. As a result of research activities, material was collected in the form of 71 judgments of voivodeship administrative courts (hereinafter: the Voivodeship Administrative Court) and 34 judgments of the Supreme Administrative Court of Poland (hereinafter: the Supreme Administrative Court). This led to the following research results: the VAC judges very rarely submit dissenting opinions to judgments in social security cases (dissenting opinions were submitted to <1% of judgments in 2004–2021); frequency of dissenting opinion should be described as low (≈ 4 times per year); the greatest number of dissenting opinions were submitted by the VAC judges in cases of social assistance (59% of the examined judgments); the dispute among the judges of the VAC most often concerned the interpretation of the law (61% of the examined judgments); only 34 of the examined VAC judgments were subject to substantive review by the SAC, which issued a judgment consistent with the view expressed in a dissenting opinion in only 10 cases (29%).