Caselaw summaries

Housing benefit (HB) – temporary absence abroad – default four-week period in breach of European law regarding workers

Housing benefit – overpayment – inadequate local authority information to claimant amounted to official error as the cause of the overpayment – claimant could not reasonably have been expected to have realised there was an overpayment

Housing benefit – ‘owner’ as a tenant in common

Housing benefit (HB) - ‘contrived’ tenancies

Human rights – local housing allowance and number of bedrooms allowed

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

Housing benefit (HB) – tribunals – error of fact and procedural unfairness shown by post-decision evidence – claimant lacked capacity to participate in proceedings

Housing benefit – overpayment recovery

Housing benefit – overpayment recovery – not recoverable from claimant’s spouse as she was never made subject to the overpayment decision

Capital and shares – claimant had shares in companies owned by her husband