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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

LR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 65 (AAC)
CUC/1019/2020

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

MW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (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

DT-v-Department for Communities (PIP)
[2021] NICom 54
C29/21-22(PIP)

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

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

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

Waltham Forest LBC v PO (HB)
[2022] UKUT 58 (AAC)
CH/1970/2019

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

LH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 32 (AAC)
CPIP/737/2021

18 February, 2022 Open access

High Court dismisses judicial review challenge to decision not to extend Covid-19-related universal credit uplift to legacy benefits

T & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Work And Pensions [2022] EWHC 351 (Admin)

17 February, 2022

Requirement to consider ‘real world’ market when valuing a jointly owned property occupied by someone who is unwilling to sell

PF v Department for Communities (ESA)
[2022] NICom 5
C7/21-22(JSA)

16 February, 2022

Tribunals should consider Practice Direction relating to vulnerable adults when assessing whether it is reasonable for a claimant with mental health problems to participate in a telephone hearing

AS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 24 (AAC)
CPIP/729/2021

15 February, 2022

Tribunal’s decision to make a closed period PIP award breached rules of natural justice as DWP failed to notify it of the claimant’s attempt to withdraw their later claim

VO v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 13 (AAC)
CPIP/904/2021

10 February, 2022

Need for a man in his early sixties to have to make a claim for a winter fuel payment when a woman of the same age would receive an automatic award on her claiming state pension does not constitute indirect discrimination

JE v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (SF)
[2022] UKUT 12 (AAC)
CIS/191/2021

8 February, 2022

Court of Appeal confirms that provision for refugees to make a backdated child tax credit claim from the date they sought asylum continues to apply where that date was before the introduction of full service universal credit

DK, R (On the Application Of) v HM Revenue and Customs [2022] EWCA Civ 120

3 February, 2022

Universal credit claim could not be withdrawn and, even if it could, that would not affect transition from housing benefit to universal credit

JL V Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 9 (AAC)
CH/2263/2019

3 February, 2022

Reference in transition regulations to universal credit basic condition of being 'in Great Britain' under section 4(1)(c) of Welfare Reform Act 2012 is freestanding and not subject to qualifications in regulations authorised by Act

SK v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 10 (AAC)
CTC/73/2021

2 February, 2022

Primary carer of a ‘Chen child’ with a permanent right to reside is entitled to a right to reside for child benefit purposes in order to give ‘useful effect’ to the child’s residence rights

FE v Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (CHB)
[2022] UKUT 4 (AAC)
CF/176/2021

28 January, 2022

High Court dismisses judicial review challenge to universal credit disabled student rules

Kays, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2022] EWHC 167 (Admin)

26 January, 2022

High Court rules that DWP’s National Disability Strategy is unlawful as consultation process failed to provide for ‘intelligent consideration and response’

Binder & Ors v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2022] EWHC 105 (Admin)

21 January, 2022

High Court rules that failure to compensate claimants who migrated to universal credit for loss of enhanced disability premium and child tax credit disabled child element is unlawful

R (on the application of) TP and AR (TP and AR No.3) [2022] EWHC 123 (Admin)

19 January, 2022

Court of Session confirms that provisions that enable refugees to make backdated child tax credit claims from the date they sought asylum continue to apply where that date was before the introduction of full service universal credit

Reclaiming motion by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs against Mr Ali Adnan and Mrs Saima Adnan [2022] ScotCS CSIH 2

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