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19 October, 2022

Child benefit backdating following grant of refugee status in circumstances where Home Office decision letter said claim cannot be made prior to receipt of Biometric Residence Permit

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v BZ
[2022] UKUT 264 (AAC)
UA-2021-000866-CHB

6 October, 2022

Refusal to extend time to apply for mandatory reconsideration of tax credit decision gives rise to right of appeal to First-tier Tribunal

AB v Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (TC)
[2021] UKUT 328 (AAC)
CTC/886/2021

3 October, 2022

Tribunal’s approach to claimant’s oral and written evidence, that it considered lacked credibility, was not an error of law

MH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 248 (AAC)
UA-2021-000155-PIP

3 October, 2022

Circumstances in which a person for whom tax credits have not been abolished may make a fresh claim following termination of an award

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v RS (No 2) (TC)
[2022] UKUT 246 (AAC)
UA-2020-001557-TC

16 September, 2022

Universal credit claimants have the right to seek backdating of their claim after the decision to award benefit has been made

AM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 242 (AAC)
UA-2022-000041-USTA

1 September, 2022

Overall assessment of circumstances needed in deciding whether childcare disregard applies rather than assessment based solely on whether actual physical care has been provided

Carmarthenshire County Council v LT
[2022] UKUT 224 (AAC)
UA-2021-001823-HB

10 August, 2022

Anti-test case rule did not prevent housing benefit claimant from relying on CJEU ruling that affiliation to NHS satisfies comprehensive sickness insurance requirement for right to reside as a self-sufficient person

WH v Powys County Council and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] UKUT 203 (AAC)
UA-2019-001384-HB

2 August, 2022

DWP entitled to withhold payment of universal credit until a national insurance number has been allocated

R (Bui) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; R (Onakoya) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] UKUT 189 (AAC)
UA-2021-000580-JR & UA-2022-000464-JR

2 August, 2022

First-tier Tribunal gave adequate reasons for finding that claimant’s impairment arose from constitutional condition which existed prior to industrial accident

DW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (II)
[2022] UKUT 183 (AAC)
UA-2021-001076-II

22 June, 2022

Period of jurisdiction on appeals against decisions undertaken as part of a Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practices exercise

YA v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2022] UKUT 143 (AAC)
UA-2021-000150-PIP

30 May, 2022

Old style ESA claimant who claimed universal credit six months after ESA ended was entitled to receive LCWRA element immediately on account of previous determination of LCWRA and national insurance credits entitlement

JW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 117 (AAC)
UA-2021-001444-ULCW

26 May, 2022

Amendments to ‘managing medication’ criteria in PIP activity 3 in 2017 were not ultra vires, did not breach human rights law, and DWP’s failure to consult on them was not unlawful

CK v SSWP (PIP); JM v SSWP (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 122 (AAC)
Reported as [2023] AACR 1
UA-2018-002190-PIP & UA-2020-000227-PIP

25 May, 2022

Claimant’s right to reside as a jobseeker did not preclude her from relying on derivative right to reside as primary carer of child of EEA national to establish entitlement to housing benefit

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council v KK and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (HB)
[2022] UKUT 123 (AAC)
UA-2019-001124-HB

11 May, 2022

First-tier Tribunal’s ignorance of fact that claimant was working in period after date of decision under appeal did not give grounds for supersession of the tribunal’s decision

BM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (DLA)
[2022] UKUT 101 (AAC)
UA-2020-000040-DLA & UA-2020-000041

10 May, 2022

Exceptions to the ‘age 65 cut-off rules’ for changes to PIP entitlement that can enable a new mobility component award after a person reaches 65 years of age

SC v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 97 (AAC)
UA-2020-001502-PIP

5 May, 2022

Guidance to representatives, tribunals and the DWP on the approach to obtaining information from an abusive partner to support a claim from the person fleeing abuse when a non-molestation injunction is in place

FN v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC)
[2022] UKUT 77 (AAC)
UA-2021-001182-UC

4 May, 2022

Dentures do not need to assist with both chewing and swallowing in order to count as an aid or appliance for taking nutrition

CB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP)
[2022] UKUT 100 (AAC)
UA-2021-002048-PIP

4 May, 2022

Claimant’s move to different property during period of overpayment was not a ‘material fact’ and so landlord’s failure to notify the change did not lead to liability for recovery of the overpayment

NSP v Stoke-on-Trent City Council & GP (HB)
[2022] UKUT 86 (AAC)
CH/1324/2020

7 April, 2022

Requirement for women whose husbands received a Category A retirement pension prior to April 2008 to make a claim for a Category B pension is not unlawful

GM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (RP)
[2022] UKUT 85 (AAC)
Reported as [2023] AACR 2
UA-2021-001262

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