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18 November, 2019

Relevance of previous failures when determining good cause for failure to attend a medical examination

JS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (ESA)
[2019] UKUT 303 (AAC)
CE/1167/2019

18 November, 2019

Child poverty in working families up almost 40 per cent since 2010

Cuts to in-work benefits have come at a 'terrible human cost', says TUC

15 November, 2019

Number of outstanding social security and child support appeals falls below 100,000

HMCTS management information for September 2018 to September 2019 also shows fall in appeal receipts to just over 10,000 in September 2019

15 November, 2019

Link between provisions relating to ineligible service charges and definition of exempt accommodation / consideration of what constitutes 'general counselling or ... any other support services'

Allerdale BC v JD and others (by their respective appointees) (HB)
[2019] UKUT 304 (AAC)
CH/28/2019, CH/31/2019, CH/34/2019 and CH/36/2019

14 November, 2019

Eligibility criteria for Scottish First-tier Tribunal members with disability experience

New statutory instrument expands criteria to include people with previous experience of disability

14 November, 2019

EU Coordination rules bypass domestic residence conditions for child tax credit but not other conditions of entitlement in the case of a child living in the EU

RI v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (TC)
[2019] UKUT 306 (AAC)
CTC/225/2018

13 November, 2019

Supreme Court rules that local authority decision makers, the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal have power to disapply secondary legislation where it is in breach of Convention rights

RR (AP) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Respondent)
Reported as [2020] AACR 7
[2019] UKSC 52

13 November, 2019

More than 800,000 food parcels were issued by the Trussell Trust between April and September 2019, up 23 per cent on the previous year

Charity adds that almost two thirds of referrals due to a delay in benefits being paid were linked to universal credit

12 November, 2019

More than half of universal credit sanctions last more than four weeks

New DWP statistics also show that almost three quarters of recent full service sanction decisions resulted in a sanction being imposed

12 November, 2019

Just 80 households on universal credit received a split payment in August 2019

New statistics also show that less than 80,000 households, out of 1.9 million total, received payment more frequently than standard monthly cycle

11 November, 2019

Amendments to social security regulations to protect rights of third country nationals lawfully living and working in Northern Ireland after the UK exits the EU

New statutory rule

8 November, 2019

Human Rights Commission calls on Northern Ireland Executive to renew welfare reform mitigation measures due to end in March 2020

Failure to replace measures such as mitigating bedroom tax and benefit cap will plunge poorest households into crisis, says Chief Commissioner

8 November, 2019

Social Security Scotland launches consultation on its first Equality Strategy

Commitments include the ‘mainstreaming’ of equality, with outcomes seeking to make 'practical improvements' addressing inequality and discrimination

7 November, 2019

UK Government needs to end the structural and design issues in universal credit that drive up poverty and debt

APPG on poverty also calls for the social fund in England to be reinstated as a rights-based national assistance scheme

7 November, 2019

80 per cent of universal credit households no longer subject to benefit cap moved off because of reasons other than earnings

New DWP statistics also show that 65 per cent of housing benefit households moved off the cap for reasons other than an open working tax credit claim

6 November, 2019

ASA upholds formal complaints about DWP’s universal credit advertising campaign

Action follows 44 complaints about campaign which featured regional press ads in the Metro and a web page hosted on the Mail Online and Metro Online websites

6 November, 2019

Claimant who has new condition, or worsening of existing condition, to be treated as having limited capability for work from date of repeat ESA claim until date of decision on claim / First-tier Tribunal not bound by DWP's decision on regulation 30

CE/633/2017

6 November, 2019

Government fails to commit to extension of ‘mitigation’ measures in response to MP’s report on welfare policy in Northern Ireland

Recommendation to end the two-child limit is also dismissed as a matter for the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly to consider

6 November, 2019

Administrative Justice Council identifies poor government decision making as a ‘prime area of concern’

Annual Report for 2018/2019 highlights development of 'polluter pays' proposal which would shift cost of tribunal hearings to departments in cases where initial decision was clearly wrong