Caselaw summaries
Easy access to all caselaw summaries published in our Welfare Rights Bulletin since 2013, covering welfare rights cases we think will be of interest to advisers.
MO v HMRC (CHB)
[2014] UKUT 199 (AAC)
Child benefit (CHB) - overpayment - person subject to immigration control - alleged misrepresentation
Broxtowe Borough Council v CS (HB)
[2014] UKUT 186 (AAC)
Housing benefit (HB) - couples – living together as husband and wife – two people in different households are not a couple even if together at weekends
MN v (1) Bury Council, (2) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (HB)
[2014] UKUT 187 (AAC)
Housing benefit (HB) - disregard of compensation for victims of Nazi persecution – failure to include the Netherlands WUV scheme in HB income disregards unlawfully discriminatory (under Article 1 of Protocol 1 and Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights)
CI v HMRC (TC)
[2014] UKUT 158 (AAC)
Tax credits (TC) - right of appeal - decision that no claim made
JR v SSWP (IS); JR v Leeds CC and another (HB)
[2014] UKUT 154 (AAC)
Council tax benefit (CTB), housing benefit (HB), income support (IS) - right to reside – worker or self-employed
AP v HMRC (TC)
[2014] UKUT 182 (AAC)
Tax credits (TC) - enforcement powers – Upper Tribunal does not have power to apply penalty for failure to provide a submission
SSWP v Lanarkshire Health Board
[2014] UKUT 177 (AAC)
Compensation recovery – certificate of recoverable benefits
DF v SSWP (ESA)
[2014] UKUT 129 (AAC)
Mobilising - relevance of award of high rate DLA mobility component
SK v SSWP (ESA)
[2014] UKUT 141 (AAC)
Representatives – can give evidence
SK v SSWP (ESA)
[2014] UKUT 141 (AAC)
Employment and support allowance (ESA) - representatives - can give evidence