Caselaw summaries

Employment and support allowance (ESA) – work capability assessment – Activity 5(c) ‘cannot use a pen or pencil to make a meaningful mark with either hand’

Universal credit (UC) – sanctions – failure to comply with work search requirement ‘for no good reason’ – ignorance of law

Employment and support allowance (ESA) – right to reside – family member of British citizen

Housing benefit (HB) - bedroom tax – categories of the actual occupants of the house are relevant

Jobseeker's allowance (JSA) - sanctions – failure by Secretary of State to provide evidence – burden of proof

Universal credit (UC) - sanctions – 35 hours a week work search requirement – not immutable – all reasonable action

Carers allowance (CA) - right to reside – competent state – what is a ‘difference of view’ between member states

Personal independence payment (PIP) - failure to attend medical – good reason

Personal independence payment (PIP) - less favourable decision – removal of points – need for adequate warning

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - activity 1 (mobilising) – tribunal must give clear reasons for adopting descriptor (d) (ability to mobilise or repeatedly mobilise more than 200 metres) rather than descriptors (a) or (c) (ability to mobilise or repeatedly mobilise more than 50 or 100 metres)