Welfare rights case law

17 October, 2019

Adjourning tribunal where validity of medical report that has been subject to audit and amendment is challenged

C13/18-19(PIP)
[2019] NICom 55

9 October, 2019

Child benefit can be exported under Article 7 of Regulation 883/2004 / priority rules for overlapping family benefits do not apply when claimant is receiving benefit in only one State

CF/5039/2014
[2019] UKUT 289 (AAC)

9 October, 2019

Guidance to tribunals on application of activity 9 - ‘Engaging with other people face to face’

CSPIP/208/2019
[2019] UKUT 292 (AAC)

9 October, 2019

Remittance of case where it was the tribunal and not the decision maker who made the first decision

CPIP/1172/2018
[2019] UKUT 279 (AAC)

9 October, 2019

Whether consuming food in liquid form to avoid swallowing difficulties fits with defintion of ‘taking nutrition’ / relevance of pain and discomfort and reliability criterion 'to an acceptable statndard'

CPIP/381/2019
[2019] UKUT 270 (AAC)

8 October, 2019

Holistic assessment should be made of claimant’s ability to plan and follow a journey on foot, driving and using public transport

CPIP/1094/2019
[2019] UKUT 274 (AAC)

8 October, 2019

Tribunal failed to give adequate reasons for finding that daily attention of more than one and a half hours did not amount to attention for a ‘significant portion of the day’

CDLA/799/2019
[2019] UKUT 272 (AAC)

7 October, 2019

Tribunal should have exercised power to extend time to apply for carer contributions credits afresh rather than merely review decision maker’s exercise of power

UK/1118/2019
[2019] UKUT 267 (AAC)

4 October, 2019

Tribunal failed to investigate sufficiently whether claimant’s medical appointments precluded her from attending oral hearing

CUC/270/2019
[2019] UKUT 268 (AAC)

4 October, 2019

Consideration of ability to follow the route of a journey should not be limited to short journeys for purposes of mobility descriptors 1(d) and 1(f)

CPIP/2567/2018
[2019] UKUT 264 (AAC)

3 October, 2019

High Court rules that mechanism used to increase women’s state pension age, in combination with a failure to properly inform women of the changes, was not unlawful

[2019] EWHC 2552 (Admin)

3 October, 2019

Actual profitability and a certain level of regular financial transactions are not essential to the definition of ‘self-employed’ for purposes of entitlement to working tax credit

CTC/2494/2018
[2019] UKUT 263 (AAC)

2 October, 2019

Court of Appeal’s right of residence decision in Ojo must be followed, and Upper Tribunal cases decided without reference to Ojo were given per incuriam

CH/708/2019
[2019] UKUT 271 (AAC)

2 October, 2019

District Tribunal Judge's refusal to set aside tribunal decision because claimant failed to provide further evidence overturned on basis that claimant had not received request for evidence

CE/40/2019
[2019] UKUT 258 (AAC)

1 October, 2019

Tribunal’s responsibilities when contemplating use of an informal interpreter at a hearing

CE/1015/2019
[2019] UKUT 261 (AAC)

23 September, 2019

High Court rules that universal credit minimum income floor is not unlawful

[2019] EWHC 2356 (Admin)

20 September, 2019

EU national who ceases self-employed activity in late stage of pregnancy retains self-employed status as long as starts to work again 'within a reasonable period' after birth of child

Case C‑544/18

13 September, 2019

Supreme Court’s observations in Gubeladze, that factual, not legal, residence is what Article 17(1)(a) of Directive 2004/38 EC requires, also apply to Article 17(1)(b)

CE/98/2015
[2019] UKUT 250 (AAC)

30 August, 2019

Self-employed EU national did not need to be earning enough to pay national insurance contributions to be ‘gainfully employed’

CG/733/2018
[2019] UKUT 239 (AAC)

Welfare rights

C13/18-19(PIP) [2019] NICom 55

CDLA/799/2019 [2019] UKUT 272 (AAC)

C13/18-19(PIP)
[2019] NICom 55

CDLA/799/2019
[2019] UKUT 272 (AAC)