Caselaw summaries

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

Notional income for pension credit – funds in private occupational pension with an ‘income drawdown policy’

Bereavement benefit (BB) – polygamous marriage

Income support (IS) – capital – whether impressed with a trust by family member – cultural context and credibility of claimant

Personal independence payment (PIP) – adequacy of Secretary of State responses to PIP appeals to the First-tier Tribunal – practice of not informing appellants of the of descriptors and points not awarded

Personal independence payment (PIP) – activity 9 (engaging with other people face-to-face) – an inability to engage with adults, irrespective of an ability to engage with children and young people, is sufficient to score points

Universal credit (UC) – child element – responsibility for a child and ‘normally living with’ test – not merely a test of whom child spends most time with

Pension credit (PC) – amount for severe disability where claimant entered care home but payment of attendance allowance (AA) incorrectly continued for several months – entitlement based on ‘receipt’ of AA, not by reference to date of admission to care home

Child benefit (CB) – national insurance number (NINO) requirement – child benefit