Caselaw summaries

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - mobilising – wheelchair use – need to show reasonableness and make findings of fact about ability

Employment and support allowance (ESA) housing costs – supersession to award housing costs is always effective from the end of the qualifying period for such costs

Personal independence payment (PIP) – tribunals – should not assume that a claimant who has said that s/he is unable to attend a hearing that has been listed for hearing a considerable distance from her/his home would not want to attend a rescheduled hearing that was closer

Capital – legal ownership and beneficial ownership

Personal independence payment (PIP) – tribunals – claimant told tribunal appeal only about mobility component, not about daily living component

Personal independence payment (PIP) - transfer from disability living allowance (DLA) to personal independence payment (PIP) – potential relevance of DLA award to PIP decision

Working tax credit (WTC) – disability element

Mental health descriptors – use of aids and appliances not taken into account

Pension credit (PC) – income – private pension paid to ex-wife as a way of fulfilling formal separation agreement

Personal independence payment (PIP) – ‘assistance’ – definition requires physical ‘intervention’ and is not involved where someone undertakes the whole task for the claimant