Caselaw summaries

Universal credit – entitlement while receiving education

Right to reside – self-sufficiency – reliance on means-tested benefits paid to partner

Personal independence payment (PIP) – chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and ability to cook a simple meal from fresh ingredients in the evening

Universal credit (UC) - right to reside – domestic abuse – breach of human rights

PIP – young person with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PSD, a rare inherited lung disorder) previously entitled to low rate care component disability living allowance refused personal independence payment on transfer

PIP Activity 7 (‘Communicating verbally’) – for purpose of descriptor 7(b) (‘Needs to use an aid or appliance to be able to speak or hear’), a bone anchored hearing aid (‘BAHA’) qualifies as an ‘aid or appliance’

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - failure to take part in (‘submit to’) a medical – good cause

Upper Tribunal for Scotland (UTS) – permission to appeal

Universal credit (UC) - identity – claim ‘closure’ for failure to provide evidence – failure to apply the law

Tribunals – error for failing to make adequate findings of fact and give adequate reasons in refusing daily living component – also for adopting ‘flawed findings’ in healthcare professional’s report