Caselaw summaries

Activity 2 (taking nutrition) – claimant with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), who as a result overindulged in food and had difficulty knowing when to stop eating

Childcare costs in housing benefit (HB) during lockdown – the childcare provider had closed during lockdown but the claimant continued to pay charges to reserve places for his children

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - overpayment – recovery for failure to disclose – computer interface between DWP offices

Universal credit and ‘double payment’ of monthly wages – legal effect of the order and declaration made by Court of Appeal in Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Johnson and others [2020] EWCA Civ 778

Universal credit (UC) – the child element of UC is not a ‘family benefit’ for the purposes of Regulation (EC) 883/04

Universal credit – overpayment – ‘waiver’ policy and decision

Housing benefit (HB) – date of claim following backdated award of severe disability premium (SDP) in claimant’s income-related employment and support allowance (ESA)

Universal credit – inclusion of repayment of overpaid income tax (payable on bonus payment of earnings) in the calculation

Bereavement payment and bereavement allowance – refusal to surviving member of cohabiting couple (not married or in a civil partnership) without children

Carer’s allowance (CA) – claimant was aged 16 but still under compulsory school age (as that was not until June 2020, following her 16th birthday in January) and receiving home education