Caselaw summaries

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - tribunal considering appeal for support group can also reconsider limited capability for work

Housing benefit (HB) - amounts for children – shared care – restriction to person receiving child benefit not unlawful

Tax credits (TC) - couples – married couple may be permanently separated even though living in same house and in same household

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - limited capability for work-related activity - exceptional circumstances - substantial risk

Right to reside - Zambrano-type right to reside - lawfulness of regulations preventing entitlement to benefit and tax credits

Claims and tribunals – local authorities are not free to follow their own procedures when administering claims for council tax benefit or housing benefit

Right to reside - extended family members - dependence must have existed in the country from which the family member has come

Pension credit (PC) - housing costs – accommodation more suited to the special needs of a disabled person

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - limited capability for work-related activity - Activity 14 (appropriateness of behaviour with other people)

Disability living allowance (DLA) - export of disability living allowance care component - 2006 appeal tribunal upheld decision that entitlement to care component lost