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2 August, 2022

DWP entitled to withhold payment of universal credit until a national insurance number has been allocated

R (Bui) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; R (Onakoya) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] UKUT 189 (AAC)
UA-2021-000580-JR & UA-2022-000464-JR

2 August, 2022

First-tier Tribunal gave adequate reasons for finding that claimant’s impairment arose from constitutional condition which existed prior to industrial accident

DW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (II)
[2022] UKUT 183 (AAC)
UA-2021-001076-II

22 June, 2022

Period of jurisdiction on appeals against decisions undertaken as part of a Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practices exercise

YA v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] UKUT 143 (AAC)
UA-2021-000150-PIP

21 June, 2022

High Court rules that government’s ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy continues to fail to comply with legal obligation to safeguard and promote the welfare of children

AB & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 1524 (Admin)

8 June, 2022

DWP did not have jurisdiction to make decision on claim for universal credit made by claimant who lived in Northern Ireland

RP-v-Department for Communities (UC)
[2022] NICom 9
C1/22-23(UC)

30 May, 2022

Old style ESA claimant who claimed universal credit six months after ESA ended was entitled to receive LCWRA element immediately on account of previous determination of LCWRA and national insurance credits entitlement

JW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 117 (AAC)
UA-2021-001444-ULCW

26 May, 2022

Amendments to ‘managing medication’ criteria in PIP activity 3 in 2017 were not ultra vires, did not breach human rights law, and DWP’s failure to consult on them was not unlawful

CK v SSWP (PIP); JM v SSWP (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 122 (AAC)
Reported as [2023] AACR 1
UA-2018-002190-PIP & UA-2020-000227-PIP

25 May, 2022

Claimant’s right to reside as a jobseeker did not preclude her from relying on derivative right to reside as primary carer of child of EEA national to establish entitlement to housing benefit

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council v KK and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (HB)
[2022] UKUT 123 (AAC)
UA-2019-001124-HB

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

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

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

BM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (DLA)
[2022] UKUT 101 (AAC)
UA-2020-000040-DLA & UA-2020-000041

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

SC v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 97 (AAC)
UA-2020-001502-PIP

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

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

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

FN v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 77 (AAC)
UA-2021-001182-UC

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

CB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 100 (AAC)
UA-2021-002048-PIP

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

NSP v Stoke-on-Trent City Council & GP (HB)
[2022] UKUT 86 (AAC)
CH/1324/2020

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

GM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (RP)
[2022] UKUT 85 (AAC)
Reported as [2023] AACR 2
UA-2021-001262

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

BK v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] UKUT 73
UA-2020-000306-USTA

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

CA v Hastings Borough Council
[2022] UKUT 57 (AAC)
CH/441/2021

31 March, 2022

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

FO v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 56 (AAC)
CUC/1792/2020

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