Carers, Bereavement, Maternity - Welfare rights case law

23 October, 2020 Open access

High Court rejects challenge to decision not to increase financial support for recipients of carer’s allowance in response to coronavirus pandemic

[2020] EWHC 2817 (Admin)

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

1 July, 2020

Court of Appeal rules that UK was not competent Member State in case where claim for carer’s allowance was made by claimant who had moved to Cyprus having lived and worked in UK

[2020] EWCA Civ 809

22 June, 2020

Meaning of ‘spouse’ under widowed parent’s allowance rules / whether possible to reinterpret under HRA to include partner married in ceremony that is not compliant with English marriage law

CG/1781/2017
[2020] UKUT 165 (AAC)

7 February, 2020

High Court rules that bereavement support payment eligibility criteria that exclude cohabiting parents from entitlement are incompatible with human rights law

[2020] EWHC 183 (Admin)

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)

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)

30 May, 2019

Whether bereavement benefits can be paid to surviving partner of religious marriage not recognised in England and Wales

CG/164/2018
[2019] UKUT 144 (AAC)

17 April, 2019

Whether UK is competent State for paying carer’s allowance under Regulation 1408/71 if claimed when claimant and disabled person resident in another EU Member State

CG/1810/2011
[2019] UKUT 83 (AAC)

16 April, 2019

Whether UK is competent State for paying carer’s allowance claimed when claimant and disabled person resident in another EU Member State

CG/3395/2016
[2019] UKUT 87 (AAC)

7 November, 2018

Determining whether ad hoc work amounts to self-employment for purposes of establishing whether UK is competent state for paying carer’s allowance

CG/1851/2015
[2018] UKUT 329 (AAC)

30 August, 2018

Supreme Court rules that refusal of widowed parent's allowance to unmarried partner is incompatible with ECHR

[2018] UKSC 48

22 March, 2018

Whether a polygamous marriage is valid for the purposes of bereavement benefit

CG/1564/2017
[2018] UKUT 68 (AAC)

27 November, 2017

No need for a formal dispute between EEA States about responsibility for paying benefits before claimants can get provisional payments

[2017] EWCA Civ 1907

21 April, 2017

Factors to take into account in deciding whether to accept late application for permission to appeal

CG/2203/2016
[2017] UKUT 149 (AAC)

17 February, 2017

Claimant not entitled to carer’s allowance because husband working in Holland

CG/2034/2016
[2017] UKUT 26 (AAC)

1 February, 2017

Notification of death to a Registrar does not constitute a valid claim for bereavement benefits

CG/1067/2016
[2017] UKUT 21 (AAC)

22 December, 2016

Woman who was not married to her deceased partner is not entitled to widowed parent’s allowance

[2016] NICA 53

14 November, 2016

Claimant entitled to carer’s allowance during year’s break from full-time study to care for son

CG/838/2015
[2016] UKUT 406 (AAC)

Welfare rights (Carers, Bereavement, Maternity)

[2020] EWHC 2817 (Admin)

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

Welfare rights
(Carers, Bereavement, Maternity)

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