Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment (PIP) - mobility – Activity 1 (planning and following journeys) – need for another person regarding overwhelming psychological distress – passive presence can be sufficient

Universal credit (UC) - overpayment – wages received in assessment period – no right of appeal against decision to recover

Disability living allowance (DLA) - transfer to PIP – appeals – whether parent acting as appointee remains an appointee for the PIP appeal

Universal credit (UC) - sanctions – need for requirement to comply with a work-related requirement to have been validly notified

Transfer from disability living allowance (DLA) to PIP – relevance of evidence relating to the DLA award

Child benefit - person subject to immigration control – claimant subject to deportation order who appealed against it

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’