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15 July, 2020 Open access

‘Incredibly difficult’ to find a solution to help those who lost entitlement to tax credits as a result of applying for universal credit, Minister tells MPs

Will Quince says there is 'no route back' and, while options have been explored, the Department 'has not found one that is workable'

15 July, 2020

Relationship between ‘change of circumstances’ and ‘new medical evidence’ supersessions of a claim where limitation on movement between PIP mobility components after pensionable age may apply

MH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 185 (AAC)
CPIP/1859/2019

15 July, 2020

Secretary of State should, where relevant, provide claimant’s ESA adjudication history and action plan in appeal response to First-tier Tribunal

RP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (ESA)
[2020] UKUT 148 (AAC)
CE/2506/2018

14 July, 2020 Open access

DWP confirms that it is testing 30 minute telephone appointments for claimant commitment interviews

However, Employment Minister also advises that Department is 'rapidly making provisions to return to face-to-face appointments with work coaches'

14 July, 2020 Open access

Ending of short-term COVID-19-related benefit increases will result in £1,000 annual losses for almost 7 million people

Office for Budget Responsibility also highlights that the number of people on universal credit is now higher than its previous forecast had assumed for any point in the next five years

14 July, 2020

Unfair to proceed with tribunal hearing where putative appointee was not permitted to participate fully / application for leave to appeal should be put before a judge

SB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 198 (AAC)
CPIP/2336/2019

14 July, 2020

Tribunals can only set aside decision under rule 37 of Procedure Rules on the written application of a party / application for statement of reasons or record of proceedings cannot be treated as an application for set aside

MA v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 172 (AAC)
CPIP/2140/2019

14 July, 2020

Interaction of activity 9 - engaging with other people face to face - and regulation 4(2A) - ability to carry out an activity reliably

JT v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 186 (AAC)
CPIP/1781/2019

13 July, 2020

Tribunal's decision awarding PIP can be superseded by Secretary of State on grounds of new medical evidence under regulation 26 / nature of supersession under regulation 26 and relationship with PIP regulation 11

BD v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2020] UKUT 178 (AAC)
CPIP/2110/2019

10 July, 2020

DWP needs to better understand and address the needs of vulnerable people who struggle under the universal credit regime, says NAO

New report finds that delays in payments often due to people having difficulty with the claims process, and that 80 per cent of disabled claimants and people on low incomes had their benefit reduced by repayment of advance or other debt

10 July, 2020

DWP replaces complaints handling service with new triage system

New centralised team will better enable complaints that are the most serious or from vulnerable claimants to be prioritised

10 July, 2020

DWP to roll out system under which social landlords receive universal credit housing costs at same time tenants receive their benefit payments

New system should greatly improve landlords' ability to manage payments and reconcile universal credit housing costs, says Neil Couling

10 July, 2020

Data sharing exercise in Scotland identifies potential housing benefit overpayments of almost £3 million

New National Fraud Initiative report from Audit Scotland presents the results of an exercise carried out across more than 120 public bodies in Scotland

9 July, 2020

Government announces that current contracts for PIP and work capability assessments are to be extended for up to two years

DWP Minister says that the Department has had to review its commercial approach to the creation of a single, integrated health assessment service as a result of COVID-19

9 July, 2020

Successful delivery of the DWP’s Health Transformation Programme ‘appears to be unachievable’

Programme to integrate the services that deliver personal independence payment and work capability assessments given a red 'Delivery Confidence Assessment' rating by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority

9 July, 2020

Calculation of the earnings threshold for the purpose of the benefit cap grace period in universal credit

New DWP guidance

9 July, 2020 Open access

Habitual residence test should be suspended in light of the mass redundancies and severe economic hardship resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic

Failing to act will exacerbate the human cost of the crisis, and is at odds with the chancellor's commitment to do 'whatever it takes' in the wake of the pandemic, says IPPR

9 July, 2020

Disregarding charitable and extra-statutory payments for the purposes of assessing entitlement to means-tested benefits

New DWP guidance

9 July, 2020

Miscellaneous amendments to funeral payments and cold weather payments

New DWP guidance

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