Several recent cases have provided some clarity about how claimants’ use of public transport and private motors cars can affect their award of personal independence payment (PIP). Ed Pybus looks at how this clarity may help claimants apply for PIP and challenge PIP decisions.
Martin Williams discusses issues and tactics for challenging decisions to refuse or end entitlement to universal credit (UC) on the ground that a claimant commitment (CC) has not been accepted.
Mark Willis reviews recent caselaw providing helpful clarification of when a claimant’s work enables her/him to count as ‘self-employed’ for the purposes of working tax credit (WTC).
Sabrina Dubash examines the considerations around determining ‘good cause/reason’ for not attending a medical assessment, highlighted by recent caselaw.
CPAG is involved in a number of test cases. Lynsey Dalton provides an update of some of the particularly current cases. For full details, visit the test cases pages on the CPAG website.
Owen Stevens reviews the DWP’s approach in cases where a severely disabled claimant has been allowed to claim universal credit (UC), when s/he should have been prevented from claiming by the ‘SDP gateway’.
Simon Osborne reviews a couple of queries regarding ‘mixed-age’ couples and when universal credit (UC) is, or is not to be, the main subsistence benefit. As the answers suggest, the individual facts are very important.
