Caselaw summaries

Housing benefit (HB) - liability for rent - person not liable may be treated as liable

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - appeal to First-tier Tribunal regarding failure to attend medical examination - tribunal composition

Disability living allowance (DLA) - mobility - high rate under 'blind/deaf' test - meaning of '100 per cent disablement'

Personal independence payment (PIP) - Activity 3

Disability living allowance (DLA) - previous medical report/decision - not put before tribunal - obligations of tribunal to call for evidence

Personal independence payment (PIP) - Activity 7

Habitual residence test - requirement to have lived in the Common Travel Area (CTA) for past three months

Disability living allowance (DLA) - presence test – aggregation of periods of residence in UK and EU – ‘genuine and sufficient link’

Personal independence payment (PIP) - descriptor 6(b) (‘Needs to use an aid or appliance to be able to dress or undress’) – not necessary for a claimant to demonstrate difficulties with both dressing and undressing; need to use an aid or appliance for one or the other is enough

Personal independence payment (PIP) - the 'required period condition' consists ofa three-month retrospective period and a nine- month prospective period - entitlement must be satisfied in each of those periods