Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment (PIP) - evidence – DWP medical evidence not automatically preferable to the evidence of a claimant

Tax credits (TC) - working tax credit – entitlement while sick – transfer from statutory sick pay (SSP) to employment and support allowance (ESA)

Disability living allowance (DLA) - ordinary residence - where residence is not lawful - requirement is that the residence is lawful

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - refusal to supply reasons for First-tier Tribunal decision - sent by clerk to tribunal in summary form and without signature of judge

Personal independence payment (PIP) - delay in mandatory reconsideration – tribunal need to observe ‘equality of arms’

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - mental health problems – tribunal not under a duty to make reasonable adjustments under Equality Act 2010 – whether to offer a telephone hearing

Personal independence payment (PIP) - PIP Activity 3 'managing therapy or monitoring a health condition' - claimant with paranoid schizophrenia living in a 24-hour staffed care home

Tax credits (TC) - section 16 Tax Credits Act 2002 in-year 'review' power - correct procedure

Personal independence payment (PIP) - PIP Activity 1 (preparing food) - not relevant to take into account claimant's 'cultural cuisine'

Universal credit (UC) - income - earnings paid after end of employment and received during assessment period