Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment – claims

Child benefit – competing claims – children lived with both parents – priority rules shared care court order relevant but not determinative

Universal credit – income – tribunal erred in treating claimant’s withdrawals from his self-invested personal pension as income

Personal independence payment – supersession of current award

Universal credit (UC) – absence abroad – where need for medical treatment arose while abroad – no breach of human rights

Income support (IS) – recovery of overpayment – no tribunal jurisdiction in absence of a decision notifying a revised entitlement

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

Adult disability payment (ADP) – tribunals – length of award of ADP made by tribunal where there has been a superseding decision since the decision under appeal

Personal independence payment – need to rest before starting an activity and to rest between activity

Personal independence payment daily living activity 1 (preparing food)