Welfare rights case law

30 September, 2020

Need for supervision where a person has to remove their hearing aids or cochlear implants while washing and consequently cannot hear a typical alarm

CPIP/3062/2016
[2020] UKUT 252 (AAC)

23 September, 2020

High Court rules that formulae for converting weekly rents to a monthly value for the purposes of calculating universal credit entitlement are neither irrational nor unlawful

[2020] EWHC 2482 (Admin)

15 September, 2020

Court of Appeal rejects challenge to increase in women’s state pension age

[2020] EWCA Civ 1199

8 September, 2020

Whether single claimant could avoid prohibition on claiming tax credits in a universal credit full-service area by relying on previous year’s joint award

CTC/1221/2019
[2020] UKUT 239 (AAC)

28 August, 2020

Whether landord’s failure to instigate possession proceedings on grounds of rent arrears meant that tenancy was non-commercial / whether a previously commercial tenancy can become non-commercial

CH/1839/2017
[2020] UKUT 240 AAC

25 August, 2020

ESA case law relating to requirement for DWP to provide tribunals with evidence of work-related activity available in area where claimant lives applies equally to universal credit

CUC/2777/2019
[2020] UKUT 215 (AAC)

20 August, 2020 Open access

High Court in Northern Ireland grants interim relief pending full hearing delayed by COVID-19 to prisoner challenging housing benefit temporary absence rules

[2020] NIQB 46

19 August, 2020

Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland rules that provisions allowing widowed parent's allowance to be suspended when claimant began to cohabit, and to be terminated when she remarried, were not unlawful

[2020] NICA 15

12 August, 2020

Whether non-EEA claimant with permanent residence who is a former spouse of EEA national is required to meet qualifying conditions relating to family members who can retain right of residence

CE/2356/2019
[2020] UKUT 235 (AAC)

11 August, 2020

Denial of bereavement support payment to family of a deceased woman who had been unable to work and pay NI contributions due to severe disability breached ECHR

[2020] NICA 36

11 August, 2020

Effective dates for awards superseded as a result of DWP’s review exercises following MH v SSWP and RJ & Ors v SSWP

CPIP/2631/2019
[2020] UKUT 221 (AAC)

10 August, 2020

Whether a First-tier Tribunal had jurisdiction to hear an appeal where there had been no decision by the Secretary of State

CIS/507/2020
[2020] UKUT 220 (AAC)

7 August, 2020

Whether DWP’s former practice of only providing tribunals with examples of least demanding work-related activities in ESA appeals was flawed

CE/1689/2018
[2020] UKUT 210 (AAC)

24 July, 2020

High Court rules that mandatory reconsideration requirement as it applies to ESA claimants who meet the conditions for payment while appeal pending is unlawful

[2020] EWHC 1999 (Admin)

23 July, 2020

High Court rules that requirement to repay a ‘Loan for Mortgage Interest’ immediately on the sale of a property is not incompatible with Article 14 of the ECHR

[2020] EWHC 1976 (Admin)

20 July, 2020

High Court rules that universal credit benefit cap earnings assessment is irrational and unlawful in case of a four-weekly paid claimant

[2020] EWHC 1944 (Admin)

15 July, 2020

Relationship between ‘change of circumstances’ and ‘new medical evidence’ supersessions of a claim where limitation on movement between PIP mobility components after pensionable age may apply

CPIP/1859/2019
[2020] UKUT 185 (AAC)

15 July, 2020

Secretary of State should, where relevant, provide claimant’s ESA adjudication history and action plan in appeal response to First-tier Tribunal

CE/2506/2018
[2020] UKUT 148 (AAC)

14 July, 2020

Unfair to proceed with tribunal hearing where putative appointee was not permitted to participate fully / application for leave to appeal should be put before a judge

CPIP/2336/2019
[2020] UKUT 109 (AAC)

Welfare rights

CPIP/3062/2016 [2020] UKUT 252 (AAC)

[2020] NIQB 46

CPIP/3062/2016
[2020] UKUT 252 (AAC)