Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment (PIP) – seizures and ability to carry out an activity safely

Universal credit (UC) – student income

Tribunals and personal independence payment (PIP) – claimant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and significant social anxiety

Evidence – observations of claimant at hearing – claimant should have opportunity to address inferences

Universal credit (UC) - housing element – size criteria – whether student at university a non-dependant

Failure to explore what evidence was available – failure to consider adjournment

Universal credit (UC) - responsibility for child – shared care – rule allocating responsibility to person with main responsibility not discriminatory

‘Salary sacrifice’ – whether earnings for income-related employment and support allowance (ESA)

Tribunals – breach of natural justice

Activity 3 (managing therapy or monitoring a health condition) – prescribed compression stockings are ‘therapy’ for purposes of the activity and tribunal should have considered whether any of the descriptors in it applied as a result of the claimant’s difficulties in putting on and taking off the stockings