MW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (IS): [2022] UKUT 59 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Rowland on 1 March 2022.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 18 March 2022

• Categories: Income support and state pension credits, Revisions, supersessions and reviews, Tribunal procedure and practice
• Sub-categories: Income support and state pension credits - other: income support, Revisions, supersessions and reviews - change of circumstances, Tribunal procedure and practice - tribunal jurisdiction
• Judges: Rowland, M
• Decision date: 1 March 2022

Read the full decision in CIS/222/2021.

Judicial Summary

Income support - transition to universal credit - award of income support terminated because entitlement to carer’s allowance ceased when the disabled person ceased to be entitled to a relevant qualifying benefit - disabled person winning appeal so that carer’s allowance was reinstated - claimant unable to claim income support again due to the introduction of universal credit - whether claimant entitled to apply for revision of, and appeal against, the decision terminating the award of income support - whether new award of carer’s allowance was a change of circumstances at the beginning of the period of the award, rather than when the award was made.

Published 18 March 2022