Caselaw summaries

Mobility Activity 1 – validity of amendments made from 16 March 2017

Activity 4 (washing and bathing) – claimant with profound hearing loss and cochlear implants

Housing benefit - ‘bedroom tax’ – room unsafe due to asbestos – room must be safe in order to be a bedroom

Tax credits - claims – by a refugee – date of claim

Moroccan national living and working in UK who is a ‘Zambrano carer’ – though excluded from benefit entitlement under national law, is nevertheless entitled to benefit via exemption from discrimination based on nationality under Article 65 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement between the European Communities and the Kingdom of Morocco – agreements also exist between the European Union and a number of states in the Middle East and North Africa and their provisions may need consideration in benefit cases

‘Nil award’ decision made in-year – HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) computer system cannot implement an in-year decision (under section 16 of the Tax Credits Act 2002) that claimant not entitled and instead makes an award for just the first day of the tax year

Capital – value of part share in a jointly owned property

Universal credit sanction – failure to attend a work-focused interview

Separated parents and disputed child benefit – ‘systemic ignorance’ at HMRC and ‘shambolic’ handling by tribunal

Tax credits - living together as husband and wife – need for adequate findings of fact