Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment (PIP) – activity 8 (reading and understanding signs, symbols and words) – claimant profoundly deaf and communicated primarily in British sign language (BSL)

Housing benefit (HB) – human rights violations – tribunal jurisdiction – tribunal cannot devise its own solution

Universal credit (UC) – mobilising – use of claimant’s estimate and reference to ‘normal’ walking speed

Employment and support allowance (ESA) – previous medical report – failure to call for missing history and evidence

Tax credits (TC) – tax credit appeals – effect of First-tier Tribunal decision in a tax credits case

Benefit cap – lone parents with children aged under two – not unlawful

Personal independence payment (PIP) – descriptor 5(b) ‘needs to use and aid or appliance to be able to manage toilet needs or incontinence’ – bed wetting at night and reasonable need to use incontinence pads whether or not used

Employment and support allowance (ESA) – tribunals – an inconsistency between the statement of reasons and the decision notice may be an error of law

Personal independence payment (PIP) – transfer from disability living allowance (DLA) to PIP – potential relevance of evidence behind DLA award

Housing benefit (HB) – non-dependant deduction – whether ‘normally resides with’ claimant – ‘normal home’ elsewhere