Caselaw summaries

Universal credit (UC) - limited capability for work-related activity period – exception to waiting period in ‘credits only’ transition case

Disability living allowance (DLA) - supersession of award made by First-tier Tribunal – alleged error/ignorance regarding material fact – must relate to facts on date of decision under appeal

Mobility component after pension age – inability to start getting mobility component after pension age

Category B retirement pension – whether claim necessary by married woman

Housing benefit overpayment and recovery – regulation 101 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

Universal credit (UC) - tribunals – domestic abuse cases – tribunal powers to make an order requiring DWP to provide information

Bereavement support payment – refusal on ground of not being the spouse/civil partner of the deceased

Universal credit (UC) - receiving education – meaning of ‘full-time’ education

Transfer to universal credit (UC) – entitlement to income support as a carer reinstated after successful appeal (UC not claimed)

Universal credit (UC) - ‘closure’ of claim for alleged failure to accept a claimant commitment – error and lack of evidence