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For access to the latest information on the range of HMRC 'products' including tax credits, child benefit and guardian's allowance, national minimum wage and tax-free childcare ... as well as information and guidance on the transition from tax credits to universal credit.
Latest updates
New regulations (6 January 2025) Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (SI.No.3/2025) Make amendments and modifications to various social security regulations relating to universal credit, pension credit, housing benefit and tax credits >> More universal credit legislation | More tax credit legislation
New Upper Tribunal decision (2 December 2024) KL by MR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC) [2024] UKUT 392 (AAC) | UA-2023-000701-USTA - Student’s universal credit claim, which would have been successful under regulation 14 exception but for the DWP’s delay in completing a work capability assessment, was correctly refused by tribunal >> More universal credit case law
New Upper Tribunal decision (10 December 2024) GA v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions (UC) [2024] UKUT 380 (AAC) | UA-2024-000557-USTA - Refusal of universal credit unlawfully discriminated against claimant with pre-settled status who was unable to claim a 'Destitution Domestic Violence Concession' in 2022 >> More universal credit case law
New Court of Appeal decision (2 December 2024) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Versnick and Another | [2024] EWCA Civ 1454 - Court of Appeal holds that claimant could rely on social assistance benefits paid to his partner in order to demonstrate self-sufficiency where his presence did not increase entitlement >> More universal credit case law
New Upper Tribunal decision (7 November 2024) CK v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions | [2024] UKUT 331 (AAC) | UA-2024-000269-USTA - Need for there to be a causal relationship between the circumstances on which a request for universal credit backdating is based and subsequent delay in making the claim, and for the delay to have been reasonable >> More universal credit case law
New Upper Tribunal decision (28 October 2024) PHC v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions | [2024] UKUT 340 (AAC) | UA-2023-000802-USTA - Claim may be disallowed if identification is not authenticated according to sections 1(1A) and 1(1B) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 >> More universal credit case law
New Upper Tribunal decision (10 October 2024) SO v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions | [2024] UKUT 305 (AAC) | UA-2022-001601-USTA - Student’s unearned income for purposes of universal credit assessed as if maximum available student loan had not been reduced on account of Welsh Government maintenance grant >> More universal credit case law
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