News and case law

8 January, 2016

Government responds to Work and Pensions Select Committee’s October 2015 welfare-to-work report

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7 January, 2016

Specific mental illness or disability need only be 'effective' cause of inability to perform activity, and need not be the root or primary cause

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7 January, 2016

Commons motion calling on the government to reverse its decision to cut the universal credit work allowance defeated by 35 votes

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7 January, 2016

Remote risk of adverse event does not mean activity cannot be carried out safely / PIP descriptors satisfied even if only apply for part of day

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7 January, 2016

Aids and appliances do not apply to mobility descriptor 2(c) / no requirement to consider ability to move with aids beyond 50m

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7 January, 2016

Factors to consider in establishing whether the beneficial interests of an ISA lie other than with the claimant

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6 January, 2016

Advance claims for the new state pension

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5 January, 2016

Severe visual impairment and the higher rate mobility component of DLA

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5 January, 2016

Assistance applying an emollient cream may constitute ‘therapy’ for the purposes of PIP Activity 3

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5 January, 2016

Tribunal hearing overpayment appeal not bound by earlier non-entitlement decision; use of money in daughter’s trust fund to pay off claimant’s rent arrears did not transfer ownership of capital to claimant

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5 January, 2016

Funds transferred to a deceased’s account prior to death but not credited until after death are not assets of the deceased’s for the purposes of a funeral payment, regardless of the motive of the transfer

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4 January, 2016

Matters such as pain are relevant to assessing whether a claimant can move distances 'to an acceptable standard'

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Government responds to Work and Pensions Select Committee’s October 2015 welfare-to-work report

Specific mental illness or disability need only be 'effective' cause of inability to perform activity, and need not be the root or primary cause

National Health Service and Social Care (Commission) Bill receives first reading

Commons motion calling on the government to reverse its decision to cut the universal credit work allowance defeated by 35 votes

Remote risk of adverse event does not mean activity cannot be carried out safely / PIP descriptors satisfied even if only apply for part of day

Aids and appliances do not apply to mobility descriptor 2(c) / no requirement to consider ability to move with aids beyond 50m

Factors to consider in establishing whether the beneficial interests of an ISA lie other than with the claimant

Advance claims for the new state pension

Council Tax (Exceptions to Higher Amounts) (Wales) Regulations 2015

Care and Support (Charging) (Wales) Regulations 2015

‘Right to rent’ immigration checks likely to affect at least 2.6 million a year

Severe visual impairment and the higher rate mobility component of DLA

Assistance applying an emollient cream may constitute ‘therapy’ for the purposes of PIP Activity 3

House of Commons Library briefing paper on the Mobile Homes Act 2013

House of Commons Library briefing paper on mobile (park) homes

Tribunal hearing overpayment appeal not bound by earlier non-entitlement decision; use of money in daughter’s trust fund to pay off claimant’s rent arrears did not transfer ownership of capital to claimant

Funds transferred to a deceased’s account prior to death but not credited until after death are not assets of the deceased’s for the purposes of a funeral payment, regardless of the motive of the transfer

Matters such as pain are relevant to assessing whether a claimant can move distances 'to an acceptable standard'

House of Commons Library briefing on statutory homelessness