Caselaw summaries

Housing benefit (HB) – overpayment – closed period supersession rather than termination for failure to provide information

Tribunals – right of appeal – ‘any time’ revisions – ‘official error’ ground

Tribunals – risks of drawing inferences from the medical treatment that a claimant has (or has not) received), and from fact claimant had not been issued with aids and appliances

PIP – claimant with ASD, ADHD and PTSD – tribunal erred in basing finding that claimant’s fatigue did not result from a health condition on fact that claimant was able motivate herself to work for 37.5 hours a week

Universal credit (UC) – closed period supersessions – not possible in advance or on basis of anticipated change of circumstances

Personal independence payment – activity 9 (engaging with other people face to face)

Child benefit – competing claims – children lived with both parents – priority rules shared care court order relevant but not determinative

Universal credit – income – tribunal erred in treating claimant’s withdrawals from his self-invested personal pension as income

Personal independence payment – supersession of current award

Universal credit (UC) – absence abroad – where need for medical treatment arose while abroad – no breach of human rights