News and case law

24 April, 2014

Claimant who could not be required to carry out work-related activity cannot satisfy regulation 35

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24 April, 2014

Need for all relevant documents to be provided to the representative

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24 April, 2014

Whether the severe visual impairment test for high rate mobility component is discriminatory because it can only be taken indoors

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24 April, 2014

Whether a tribunal can decide to allow an appeal before the hearing / deciding appeal on basis of issue not raised by the appeal

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23 April, 2014

Reduction in assistance with mortgage interest not in breach of human rights

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23 April, 2014

Double test of mobilising and mobilising repeatedly

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23 April, 2014

Duty to apply ‘reasonable regularity’ test / regulation 29 / tribunal’s observations of claimant

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23 April, 2014

Effect of DWP errors in payment of widowed parent’s allowance on recoverability of overpayment

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23 April, 2014

Atos’s WCA contract to end in February 2015

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22 April, 2014

Identifying grounds to supersede a DLA award

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22 April, 2014

Whether ground rent for a mobile home qualifies as housing costs for the purposes of pension credit

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22 April, 2014

Whether two years is an unacceptable delay by local authority in forwarding appeal

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22 April, 2014

1.75m of poorest families have had benefits cut due to welfare reforms

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19 April, 2014

Whether the test of visual acuity for severe visual impairment (high rate mobility component) is dependent on measurements on the Snellen Scale alone

More Welfare rights case law

Claimant who could not be required to carry out work-related activity cannot satisfy regulation 35

Need for all relevant documents to be provided to the representative

Whether the severe visual impairment test for high rate mobility component is discriminatory because it can only be taken indoors

Whether a tribunal can decide to allow an appeal before the hearing / deciding appeal on basis of issue not raised by the appeal

Reduction in assistance with mortgage interest not in breach of human rights

Double test of mobilising and mobilising repeatedly

Duty to apply ‘reasonable regularity’ test / regulation 29 / tribunal’s observations of claimant

Effect of DWP errors in payment of widowed parent’s allowance on recoverability of overpayment

What can providers of residential care for older people learn from other sectors?

Atos’s WCA contract to end in February 2015

Identifying grounds to supersede a DLA award

Whether ground rent for a mobile home qualifies as housing costs for the purposes of pension credit

Whether two years is an unacceptable delay by local authority in forwarding appeal

£450m levy on high cost lenders would fund 1.5m new affordable loans, says IPPR

Employment case law round up

1.75m of poorest families have had benefits cut due to welfare reforms

Whether the test of visual acuity for severe visual impairment (high rate mobility component) is dependent on measurements on the Snellen Scale alone

Government publishes response to ‘Providing social housing for local people’ consultation

Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2014