
Welfare benefits | Friday 18 December 2020
Social Welfare Update: Payments from discretionary trust did not disentitle claimant from income-related ESA
Blog by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Law Team. SM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (ESA) [2020] UKUT 265 (AAC)

Welfare benefits | Wednesday 23 December 2020
Social Welfare Update: Extension of Past Presence Test for DLA breaches disabled children’s Art 14 ECHR rights
Blog by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Law Team on TS (by TS) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (DLA); EK (by MK) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (DLA) [2020] UKUT 284 (AAC)

Welfare benefits | Thursday 1 July 2021
Universal credit policy on deductions for court fines unlawful as it did not contain exception for financial hardship
Blog by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Law Team. R (Blundel & Ors) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2021] EWHC 608 (Admin)

Welfare benefits | Thursday 17 December 2020
Social Welfare Update: Right to backdate benefit where claimant can no longer claim Housing Benefit after moving house to a Universal Credit full-service area
Blog by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Law Team. CP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC) [2020] UKUT 309 (AAC)