Caselaw summaries

Income support (IS) - overpayment - recoverability - need for a clear entitlement decision on supersession

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - mobilising - significant discomfort different from severe discomfort

Child benefit (CHB), income support (IS), tax credits (TC) - suspension of benefit - pending appeal - where claimant has rights under EU law

Home responsibilities protection (HRP) - UK national raising a child in Belgium, partner working

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

Disability living allowance (DLA) - hearing in party's absence - set-aside - where claimant had declined oral hearing and no representative

Council tax benefit (CTB), housing benefit (HB) - hearing in party's absence - set-aside - interests of justice

Income support (IS) - right to reside - retained worker status - delay in registering as unemployed

Child benefit (CHB) - right-to-reside test - unlawful for child benefit - relevance of economic or social integration

Jobseeker's allowance (JSA) - housing costs - to be included from first day of benefit week in which the housing costs become payable (eg, from end of the 13-week waiting period)