Caselaw summaries

State pension – backdating – not possible to backdate after decision applying choice to claim from a later date

State pension – backdating – not possible to backdate after decision applying choice to claim from a later date

Adult disability payment (ADP) – mobility activity 1 (planning and following journey) – descriptor 1f (‘cannot follow the route of a familiar journey without another person...’)

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

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

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

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