Caselaw summaries

Housing benefit (HB) – whether not entitled on basis that the liability to create rent was ‘created to take advantage of the housing benefit scheme’

Tribunals – responsibility to explain a decision apparently inconsistent with previous award

Interim decision – claimant was refused bereavement benefits on the ground that she had not been married to her late partner

Tax credits – whether new claim made after single claimant became part of a couple

National insurance credits for unemployment – wrongful termination for failing to attend an interview for jobseeker’s allowance (JSA)

Transfer to UC from tax credits – UC claim withdrawn before issue of stop notice to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) – must be a subsisting claim for UC at time of the stop notice for termination of tax credits to follow

Right to reside – pre-settled status – discrimination and whether benefit rules lawful

Two-child limit – not unlawful

Tribunals – previous tribunal found that claimant was dishonest and had forged medical evidence

Housing benefit – income – fostering allowances paid to foster carers for looked-after children (ie, under the Children Act 1989) approved by independent fostering agencies – not to be regarded as earnings