Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v MJ [2025] UKUT 035 (AAC)
This is a challenge to the policy of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to MJ, a claimant in receipt of the carer element and transitional SDP element, to erode the whole of her transitional SDP element when she was found to have limited capability for work and work related activity. The UT allowed the SSWP’s appeal and re-made the FTT decision in MJ’s favour, finding that she had been unlawfully discriminated against.
A combination of cuts and rising demand mean that time is a scarce resource for welfare rights advisers dealing with DWP benefits. Owen Stevens sets out various time-saving ‘hacks’ to help advisers achieve results quickly and efficiently.
Owen Stevens and Martin Williams consider issues with ‘any ground revisions’ of universal credit (UC) decisions. Typically, such issues arise where a decision awarding UC is incorrect when made due to the claimant not declaring the correct circumstances in a claim.
R (LMN and EFG) v SSWP [2025] EWHC 1849 (Admin); [2026] EWCA Civ 846.
This is a challenge to the non-consensual conception exception ordering rule within the two-child limit. The application for judicial review was initially refused permission on the papers. At a renewal hearing on 10 October 2024, the High Court granted permission for the case to go to a substantive hearing.
