Caselaw summaries

Competent state regarding claim for UK carer's allowance – Polish national claimant in receipt of a Polish pension but who had been doing some self-employed work immediately prior to carer’s allowance claim

Child tax credit – main responsibility test – competing claims

Estoppel – findings of previous tribunals – decisions are final but determinations embodied within them are not conclusive

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - activity 5 (manual dexterity) – the reference to ability to pick up a £1 coin in descriptor 5(b) includes a reference to a £1 coin in its new (bevelled edge) form – legislator must be assumed to intended to refer to the coin in the form in which it exists whenever the assessment is applied in an individual case – although as the issue was not addressed in argument, that is ‘simply a view rather than a binding interpretation’

Tax credits - transition to universal credit – after claim for universal credit – where claim withdrawn

Housing benefit (HB) - liability – former owner who had sold the property – immediate threat to occupation not required

Work capability assessment (WCA) – backdrop of modern workplace – does not apply to every descriptor

Supersession of award and loss of entitlement – supersession is permitted by receipt of new evidence from a healthcare professional

‘Bedroom tax’ – application prior to rule change on 1 April 2017 to disabled adults unable to share a bedroom

Personal independence payment (PIP) - failure to attend medical – good cause