Caselaw summaries

Disability living allowance to personal independence allowance (PIP) transfer cases

Houseboat licence fee – can be eligible for housing benefit under regulation 12(1)(b) Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

Universal credit (UC) - online claim – date of claim where online form saved and submitted late – claim only made when submitted

Contradictory decision notice – failure of presenting officer to attend – inadequate warning of less favourable decision

Sure Start maternity grant – refugee with ‘pre-flight’ child – breach of human rights by ‘first-child only’ rule

Tribunals – not limited to judicial review considerations or evidence in existence at time of decision

Enforcement reference to Upper Tribunal under rule 7(3) of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Social Entitlement Chamber) Rules – following DWP failure to comply timeously with direction from Upper Tribunal to provide adjudication history in the claimant’s case

Right to reside – where a British national has worked in another European Union member state and ‘genuinely’ resided there with a family member

Tribunals – claimant transferred from maximum award of disability living allowance (DLA) to personal independence allowance but awarded only the standard rate of the daily living component

Housing benefit (HB) – revision or supersession for failure to comply following suspension of benefit