Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment (PIP) - activity 3 (‘Managing therapy or monitoring a health condition’) – diabetes (not well controlled)

Personal independence payment (PIP) - activity 9 (‘Engaging with other people face to face’) – the whole of Activity 9 is concerned with a claimant’s ability ‘to engage with other people face to face in social situation’

Pension credit (PC) - set-aside of Upper Tribunal decision - refusal to grant permission to appeal

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - work-related activity – substantial risk – whether claimant could be accompanied

Housing benefit (HB) – definition of ‘close relative’

Housing benefit (HB) - this decision of the Supreme Court (comprising several decisions in individual cases) concerns the lawfulness of the so-called 'bedroom tax' rules in housing benefit (at regulation 813 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006, SI No.213).

Child benefit (CB) - competing claims – correct approach

Tax credits (TC) - appeals – ‘Statement Like an Award Notice’

Personal independence payment (PIP) - reduction of award before end date following ‘planned review’ – need to identify supersession ground and explain difference from original award

Personal independence payment (PIP) - activity 2 (taking nutrition) – activity does not cover dietary choices or eating well or nutritiously – concerned only with the act of eating or drinking