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13 November, 2013

When reasonable to expect claimant to use a manual wheelchair to mobilise for purposes of ESA descriptors

CE/56/2013

5 November, 2013

High Court dismisses single parent families’ benefit cap challenge

[2013] EWHC 3350 (QB)

1 November, 2013

Misrepresentation on previous claim form can result in recoverable overpayment

CE/3017/2012

31 October, 2013

Tribunal wrong to reason that claimant did not qualify for DLA care component just because he spent energy working

CDLA/4136/2012

30 October, 2013

Supreme Court rules that regulations creating back-to-work schemes were unlawful

[2013] UKSC 68

29 October, 2013

Evidence of ‘arrested development of the brain’ and severely disruptive behaviour caused by epilepsy

CDLA/1044/2013

29 October, 2013

No additional bedroom allowed for claimant who requires overnight care where extra room used by non-resident carer is not a bedroom

CH/1940/2012

28 October, 2013

When reasonable to expect claimant to use a manual wheelchair to mobilise for purposes of ESA descriptors

CE/3315/2012

28 October, 2013

When reasonable to expect claimant to use a manual wheelchair to mobilise for purposes of ESA descriptors

CE/3737/2012

28 October, 2013

Time limit for claiming industrial injuries disablement benefit for deceased person

CI/3218/2012

24 October, 2013

Whether refusal to award community care grant to claimant in receipt of contribution based ESA breached her human rights

[2013] EWHC 3241 (Admin)

23 October, 2013

Tribunal erred by deciding ESA appeal without considering DLA papers, and not properly assessing whether claimant could use a wheelchair

CE/108/2013

23 October, 2013

Court of Appeal dismisses DWP’s appeal against decision that DLA care component exportable

[2013] EWCA Civ 1471

23 October, 2013

No power to terminate a tax credit award where one partner stops working and the other starts working

CTC/3977/2012

23 October, 2013

Claimant with visual acuity of 6/60 is not entitled to the higher rate mobility component of DLA on grounds of severe visual impairment

CDLA/4126/2012

21 October, 2013

Continence descriptor and use of aids

CE/4000/2012

18 October, 2013

‘Long tenancy’ only excluded from HB if it creates a ‘legal estate’, evidenced by a deed

CH/2431/2012

17 October, 2013

Assisting a claimant to control anger and aggression can amount to supervision or guidance for the purposes of the lower rate mobility component

CDLA/3874/2012

17 October, 2013

Inadequate reasons for tribunal’s decision and irrelevance of ‘essay’ on what constitutes adequate reasoning

CDLA/227/2013

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