Caselaw summaries
Easy access to all caselaw summaries published in our Welfare Rights Bulletin since 2013, covering welfare rights cases we think will be of interest to advisers.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v AT (AIRE Centre and IMA Intervening)
[2023] EWCA Civ 1307
Right to reside – pre-settled status – right to live in dignified conditions
SSWP v AD (UC)
[2023] UKUT 272 (AAC)
Universal credit (UC) and student loan income
Jwanczuk v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2023] EWCA Civ 1156
Bereavement support payment – discrimination regarding disabled person unable to make national insurance (NI) contributions
NB v Social Security Scotland
[2023] UT35
Adult disability payment – evidence and oral hearing – use of PIP caselaw
KI v SSWP
[2023] UKUT 212 (AAC)
Child tax credit – HMRC unaware of disability living allowance award to child
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham v FJ
[2023] UKUT 203 (AAC)
Housing benefit (HB) – whether liability created ‘to be a means of taking advantage of the housing benefit scheme’
KR v SSWP (CA)
[2023] UKUT 202 (AAC)
Earnings – zero hours contract and fluctuating earnings
IB v Gravesham BC and SSWP (HB)
[2023] UKUT 193 (AAC)
Housing benefit (HB) – students – notional loan income – principled and conscientious objection to taking out a student loan
AT v SSWP (PIP)
[2023] UKUT 186 (AAC)
Personal independence payment (PIP) - past presence test – inability to return to UK due to illness – no catch-all exception to the test
Robins v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2023] EWCA Civ 890
Category A retirement pension – ‘contracting out deduction’ of late husband’s guaranteed minimum pension