Moore and another v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2020] EWHC 2827 (Admin)
On 18 October 2019, CPAG issued judicial review proceedings challenging the treatment of maternity allowance (MA) as unearned income in the calculation of universal credit (UC) awards. A "rolled up" hearing of the case took place in the High Court on 24–25 June 2020, meaning that permission to apply for judicial review and the substantive case were considered at the same hearing. In a judgment handed down on 26 October 2020, the judge found that CPAG's case was arguable on two grounds, but ultimately found in favour of the Secretary of State. CPAG applied to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal on behalf of the claimants. The permission application was considered at an oral hearing on 23 June 2021 and permission was refused. There is no further avenue of challenge in relation to this matter.
On 17 September 2019, CPAG filed a judicial review claim challenging the lower standard allowance in universal credit for lone parents who are under 25. Permission to apply for judicial review was refused at an oral permission hearing on 11/12/19. CPAG sought permission to appeal this decision in the Court of Appeal but permission was refused on 30 April 2021.
Whether creating a universal credit account and clicking 'Make a claim' is sufficient to count as a defective claim for universal credit? The claimant in CUC/968/2019 created an online universal credit account. He then clicked 'Make a claim'. He did not complete all of the questions the system then generated on the same day. Instead he logged out and did not complete all the questions and click 'Submit claim' until a few days later.
On 29 March 2018, CPAG issued judicial review proceedings challenging the decision of the DWP to limit backdated payments to those disabled people who had been underpaid when they transferred from incapacity benefit (‘IB’) to employment and support allowance (‘ESA’) to a 21 October 2014 date.
MH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions C3/2015/2886
The issue raised by this case in the Court of Appeal is whether the UK’s Immigration (EEA) Regulations 2006 must be read pursuant to EU law as providing a right to reside in the UK not only to EEA children in education whose parents have been employed persons, but also to those whose parents have been ¬self-employed persons. Regretfully the Court of Appeal has decided that there is no such requirement and an application for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court has been refused.