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17 January, 2023

Court of Appeal upholds High Court ruling that Secretary of State did not act unlawfully in deciding not to uprate legacy benefits in line with universal credit from 6 April 2021

T & Ors v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions [2023] EWCA Civ 24

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

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)

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

11 January, 2021

Whether benefit awards made to claimant using a fictitious identity that had been granted British Citizenship were properly revised, reversed and found recoverable

ED v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2020] UKUT 352 (AAC)
CJSA/2368/2373/2377 & 2381/2017, CE/2384 & 2388/2017 and CIS/2390/2395 & 2396/2017

5 January, 2021

Whether insurance policy payments to a widow precluded entitlement to a funeral payment

The Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions v GB (IS)
[2020] UKUT 316 (AAC)
CIS/1728/2019

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

MM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (IS)
[2020] UKUT 220 (AAC)
CIS/507/2020

2 June, 2020

Rule limiting entitlement to sure start maternity grant when claimant already responsible for child aged under 16 breached human rights of refugee and kinship carer

SK and LL v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (IS)
[2020] UKUT 145 (AAC)
CIS/620/2019 & CIS/2245/2018

11 February, 2020

Circumstances where a tribunal may have a duty to telephone claimant to establish reasons for non-attendance before proceeding to hear a case in their absence

KD v Secretary for Work and Pensions (ESA and IS) KD v Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (TC)
[2020] UKUT 9 (AAC)
CTC/9/2019, CE/10,11,12 & 13/2019, CIS/14 & 15 2019

17 December, 2019

Whether EU law provides for a ‘secondary’ right to reside as primary carer of under school age child where primary carer is not a family member of other parent

AM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and another (JSA, IS and HB)
[2019] UKUT 361 (AAC)
Reported as [2020] AACR 17
CJSA/1637/2017, CIS/1888/2017 and CH/1889/2017

29 November, 2019

Correct approach to assessing whether two people are ‘living together as a married couple’ / reasoning required from tribunal in ‘living together’ cases

KJ v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (IS)
[2019] UKUT 312 (AAC)
CIS/1028/2019

8 May, 2019

Claimant who gave up work to care for children did not have right to reside

CIS/1748/2012

9 October, 2018

Housing benefit is a specified benefit for the purposes of transitional protection from right to reside test / tribunal must exercise inquisitorial jurisdiction where 'clearly apparent' that protection may apply

CIS/1798/2018

3 August, 2018

Evidence requirements to prove a private conversation took place between a presenting officer and judge / none disclosue of facts on a new claim and onus of proof

CH/251/2017

27 March, 2018

Determining beneficial ownership of capital derived from informal family arrangements / credibility and taking account of cultural context

CIS/798/2017

9 February, 2018

Determining a claimant's share of the beneficial interest in jointly owned property for the purposes of calculating capital for means tested benefits

CIS/1294/2016

12 January, 2018

Standard of reasons required when tribunal finds an overpayment recoverable for a failure to furnish information, and when imposing a civil penalty

CIS/1094/2017

18 December, 2017

Whether changes to support for mortgage interest loan limits in 2009 discriminate against disabled claimants

[2017] EWCA Civ 2123

22 November, 2017

Denial of right to reside held to be proportionate for an EU lone parent prevented by court order from taking British children out of UK

CIS/4259/2013

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