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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

UA-2021-001835-IS
[2022] UKUT 59 (AAC) | CIS/222/2021

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

CH/1970/2019
[2022] UKUT 58 (AAC)

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

CPIP/737/2021
[2022] UKUT 32 (AAC)

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

CPIP/729/2021
[2022] UKUT 24 (AAC)

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

CPIP/904/2021
[2022] UKUT 13 (AAC)

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

CIS/191/2021
[2022] UKUT 12 (AAC)

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Universal credit claim could not be withdrawn and, even if it could, that would not affect transition from housing benefit to universal credit

CH/2263/2019
[2022] UKUT 10 (AAC)

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

CTC/73/2021
[2022] UKUT 10 (AAC)

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

CF/176/2021
[2022] UKUT 4 (AAC)

6 January, 2022

Circumstances in which a person for whom tax credits have not been abolished may make a fresh claim following termination of an award

CTC/1514/2020
[2021] UKUT 310 (AAC)

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

CH/990/2020
[2021] UKUT 305 (AAC)

14 December, 2021

Tax credit entitlement is not terminated where a universal credit claim is withdrawn before the DWP issues a ‘stop notice’

CTC/2193/2019
[2021] UKUT 209 (AAC)

7 December, 2021

Claimant that worked erratic hours under zero hours contract was still required to meet ‘regular employment’ condition in order to retain entitlement to reduced earnings allowance

CI/242/2021
[2021] UKUT 279 (AAC)

19 November, 2021

Supersession to account for deterioration after industrial injuries disablement benefit award requires an initial ‘notional assessment’ of disablement that ignores any constitutional degenerative changes

CI/940/2020
[2021] UKUT 257 (AAC)

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

CH/1041/2020
[2021] UKUT 256 (AAC)

19 October, 2021

Meaning of ‘out of’ and ‘in the course of’ employment for the purposes of assessing whether an accident is an industrial accident

CI/68/2021
[2021] UKUT 240 (AAC)

14 October, 2021

Application of personal independence payment activities and descriptors to a claimant who is a ‘functioning alcoholic’

CPIP/2229/2019
[2021] UKUT 226 (AAC)

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

CH/550/2021
[2021] UKUT 219 (AAC)

12 October, 2021

For the purposes of a funeral expenses payment, a funeral is an event involving final disposal of the deceased’s body and ceremonies closely related to that in nature, time, and place

CSIS/256/2020
[2021] UKUT 243 (AAC)

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