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16 May, 2022

High Court of Northern Ireland rules that treatment of maternity allowance as unearned income for the purposes of universal credit is not unlawful

[2022] NIQB 29
RK, Re Application for Judicial Review

11 May, 2022

First-tier Tribunal’s ignorance of fact that claimant was working in period after date of decision under appeal did not give grounds for supersession of the tribunal’s decision

UA-2020-000040-DLA & UA-2020-000041-DLA
2022] UKUT 101 (AAC)

10 May, 2022

Exceptions to the ‘age 65 cut-off rules’ for changes to PIP entitlement that can enable a new mobility component award after a person reaches 65 years of age

UA-2020-001502-PIP
[2022] UKUT 97 (AAC) | CPIP/1814/2020

9 May, 2022

Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland upholds High Court decision that 13 week housing benefit temporary absence rules that apply to serving prisoners do not breach human rights law

[2022] NICA 21
Taylor v The Department for Communities and The Department for Work and Pensions

5 May, 2022

Guidance to representatives, tribunals and the DWP on the approach to obtaining information from an abusive partner to support a claim from the person fleeing abuse when a non-molestation injunction is in place

UA-2021-001182-UC
[2022] UKUT 77 (AAC)

4 May, 2022

Dentures do not need to assist with both chewing and swallowing in order to count as an aid or appliance for taking nutrition

UA-2021-001862-PIP
[2022] UKUT 100 (AAC)

4 May, 2022

Claimant’s move to different property during period of overpayment was not a ‘material fact’ and so landlord’s failure to notify the change did not lead to liability for recovery of the overpayment

CH/1324/2020
[2022] UKUT 86 (AAC)

7 April, 2022

Requirement for women whose husbands received a Category A retirement pension prior to April 2008 to make a claim for a Category B pension is not unlawful

UA-2021-001262-RP
[2022] UKUT 85 (AAC) | CP/317/2021

5 April, 2022

Whether definition of ‘full-time course of education’ in universal credit refers to actual number of hours of study rather than classification by the particular educational institution

UA-2020-000306-USTA
[2022] UKUT 73 (AAC)

1 April, 2022

Tribunal made error of law by failing to consider housing benefit provisions that enable a business partner’s company holding to be disregarded while they continued to undertake business activities

CH/441/2021
[2022] UKUT 57 (AAC)

31 March, 2022

Evidence needed to decide whether a person has failed to accept a claimant commitment

CUC/1792/2020
[2022] UKUT 56 (AAC)

30 March, 2022

Upper Tribunal modifies forfeiture rule to provide for claimant to receive three-quarters of the underpaid retirement pension due to her for the period after she had unlawfully killed her husband

UA-2019-001376-FRP
[2022] UKUT 48 (AAC) | CFP/1198/2019

24 March, 2022

Bereavement support payment claimant could not rely on period when deceased partner remained married to someone else in establishing marriage by cohabitation under Scottish law

UA-2021-SCO 000030 BB
[2022] UKUT 83 (AAC)

23 March, 2022

Tribunal was correct to decide that an Irish widow’s pension should be counted as claimant’s unearned income to be deducted from any calculation of universal credit

CUC/1019/2020
[2022] UKUT 65 (AAC)

22 March, 2022

Decision to cease entitlement to income support because claimant’s carer’s allowance had stopped can be revised if the decision to stop carer’s allowance is subsequently overturned

UA-2021-001835-IS
[2022] UKUT 59 (AAC) | CIS/222/2021

16 March, 2022

Tribunal of Northern Ireland Commissioners rules that appeal tribunals are not obliged to follow PIP guidance in the Advice for Decision Making Guide relating to fixed-term awards

C29/21-22(PIP)
[2021] NICom 54

10 March, 2022

CJEU rules that requirement for non-EEA national mother of EEA national child to have comprehensive sickness insurance did not apply once child acquired permanent right to reside and that, in period before that, requirement was met by affiliation to NHS

C-247/20
VI v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs

9 March, 2022

Application of housing benefit rules in relation to the bedroom tax and non-dependant deductions where a foster parent is accepting intermittent placements

CH/1970/2019
[2022] UKUT 58 (AAC)

7 March, 2022

Obligation on tribunal to explain why it decided against awarding more points for a PIP activity when a higher award had been recommended in the DWP’s written submission

CPIP/737/2021
[2022] UKUT 32 (AAC)

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