Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment Activity 4 (washing and bathing): the test is of the physical or mental ability to wash and bathe, not of quality of the result of washing and bathing

Adult disability payment – tribunal making award erred in failing to apply the ‘required period condition’ in deciding the start date of the award

New-style ESA – tribunal referred to the wrong ESA regulations – due to judicial case manager software – whether a material error

Adult disability payment (ADP) - need for proper evidence to support award – universal credit award is not a passport – tribunal wrongly inferred entitlement and should have gathered further evidence

Jurisdiction – strike out of appeal against DWP ‘letter’ which did not constitute a ‘decision’

Universal credit (UC) – work capability assessment – activity 8 (‘navigation and maintaining safety’)

Housing benefit – overpayment recovery

First-tier Tribunal for Scotland – adequacy of reasons

Evidence – fairness – use of ‘closed questions’ to claimant

Disability living allowance (DLA) - severe mental impairment route to high-rate mobility component – ADHD capable of being ‘arrested development or incomplete physical development of the brain’