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.
SSWP v AB (BB)
[2022] UKUT 83 (AAC)
Bereavement support payment – refusal on ground of not being the spouse/civil partner of the deceased
BK v SSWP
[2022] UKUT 73 (AAC)
Universal credit (UC) - receiving education – meaning of ‘full-time’ education
MW v SSWP (IS)
[2022] UKUT 59 (AAC)
Transfer to universal credit (UC) – entitlement to income support as a carer reinstated after successful appeal (UC not claimed)
FO v SSWP (UC)
[2022] UKUT 56 (AAC)
Universal credit (UC) - ‘closure’ of claim for alleged failure to accept a claimant commitment – error and lack of evidence
T and others, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] EWHC 351 (Admin)
Legacy benefits – not providing an uplift to rates as per universal credit (UC) in coronavirus pandemic – not unlawful
LR v SSWP (UC)
[2022] UKUT 65 (AAC)
Universal credit (UC) – unearned income
Kays, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] EWHC 167 (Admin)
Disabled students – 2020 amendments not unlawful
R (on the application of) TP and AR (TP and AR No.3) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, and R (on the application of) AB and F v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] EWHC 123 (Admin)
Universal credit (UC) – natural migration by severely disabled claimants – failure to provide relief for loss of enhanced disability premium (EDP) and child tax credit (CTC) disabled child element unlawful
AS v SSWP (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 24 (AAC)
Tribunals – tribunal erred in failing properly to consider claimant’s request for a face-to-face hearing rather than by telephone
JL v Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council and SSWP
[2022] UKUT 9 (AAC)
Transfer to universal credit (UC) – withdrawal of claim – termination of housing benefit (HB)