Caselaw summaries

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

Housing benefit (HB) - passporting on basis of universal credit (UC) entitlement – no passporting for a ‘nil award’ of UC – no such thing as a nil award of or nil entitlement to UC

Housing benefit (HB) – overpayment recovery – tribunals

Housing benefit (HB) – whether liability created ‘to be a means of taking advantage of the housing benefit scheme’

Housing benefit (HB) – students – notional loan income – principled and conscientious objection to taking out a student loan