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13 March, 2024

Failure to consider every change in earnings through period of overpayment amounted to error of law

London Borough of Waltham Forest v CA
[2024] UKUT 39 (AAC)
UA-2021-000675-HB

10 October, 2023

Whether or not a claimant is ‘taking advantage’ of the housing benefit scheme is a fact-specific assessment

London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham v FJ
[2023] UKUT 203 (AAC)
UA-2022-001625-HB

15 September, 2023

First-tier Tribunal applied correct test when deciding what were ‘essential’ repairs for a disabled claimant under temporary absence provisions of regulation 7(4) of Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

SH v London Borough of Southwark
[2023] UKUT 198 (AAC)
UA-2021-001818-HB

6 September, 2023

Notional income from student loan was not to be taken into account in case where student did not apply for loan due to religious beliefs

IB v Gravesham Borough Council and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2023] UKUT 193 (AAC)
UA-2019-001395-HB

8 August, 2023

Third country family members can acquire residence rights following dissolution of marriage between third country national and EEA citizen despite omission from EEA Regulations

AT v LB Hillingdon and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (HB)
[2023] UKUT 149 (AAC)
UA-2020-000117-HB

21 March, 2023

Payments to child care provider made to reserve children’s places during Covid-19 lockdown did not amount to ‘relevant child care charges for the purposes of regulation 28 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

Manchester City Council v NG
[2023] UKUT 51 (AAC)
UA-2022-000787-HB

14 March, 2023

Claim for housing benefit could not be backdated to start of universal credit severe disability gateway in case where claimant had retrospective award of ESA severe disability premium for period before gateway started

PR v SSWP and Allerdale BC (HB)
[2023] UKUT 34 (AAC)
UA-2021-001073-HB

1 September, 2022

Overall assessment of circumstances needed in deciding whether childcare disregard applies rather than assessment based solely on whether actual physical care has been provided

Carmarthenshire County Council v LT
[2022] UKUT 224 (AAC)
UA-2021-001823-HB

10 August, 2022

Anti-test case rule did not prevent housing benefit claimant from relying on CJEU ruling that affiliation to NHS satisfies comprehensive sickness insurance requirement for right to reside as a self-sufficient person

WH v Powys County Council and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] UKUT 203 (AAC)
UA-2019-001384-HB

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

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

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

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

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

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

5 January, 2022

Claimant who moved into property after tenant went to prison could not be treated as liable to make payments for housing benefit purposes

ZD v London Borough of Hillingdon (HB)
[2021] UKUT 305 (AAC)
CH/990/2020

3 November, 2021

Landlord who received direct payments of housing benefit is a ‘necessary party’ to claimant’s appeal against decision to recover subsequent overpayment from the claimant only

DBH v West Lindsey District Council (HB)
[2021] UKUT 256 (AAC)
CH/1041/2020

14 October, 2021 Open access

Tribunal drew unfair inference that claimant had opted for paper hearing to avoid questioning when, in fact, obvious inference was that he was shielding during first Covid-19 lockdown

JS v Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council (HB)
[2021] UKUT 219 (AAC)
CH/550/2021

13 September, 2021

Fostering allowances paid to carers approved by independent agencies, in common with allowances paid to carers approved by local authorities, are not to be counted as part of their earnings

Hillingdon London Borough Council v EB (HB)
[2021] UKUT 208 (AAC)
CH/1739/2019

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