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.
SC v SSWP (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 97 (AAC)
Mobility component after pension age – inability to start getting mobility component after pension age
GM v SSWP (RP)
[2022] UKUT 85 (AAC)
Category B retirement pension – whether claim necessary by married woman
NSP v Stoke-on-Trent City Council and GP
[2022] UKUT 86 (AAC)
Housing benefit overpayment and recovery – regulation 101 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006
FN v SSWP (UC)
[2022] UKUT 77 (AAC)
Universal credit (UC) - tribunals – domestic abuse cases – tribunal powers to make an order requiring DWP to provide information
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