PE v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (JSA): [2024] UKUT 424 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Butler on 12 December 2024
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Judicial Summary
This judgment is about circumstances where a claimant wants a claim for New Style jobseeker’s allowance to be treated as made on an earlier date (i.e., backdated) where a close relative has died. The applicable regulation is regulation 29 of the Universal Credit etc. (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013.
The judgment confirms the fact regulation 29(5)(f) gives a dedicated ground for a claim to be backdated for one month where a close relative has died, does not prevent the death of a close relative from also being considered under the different ground of regulation 29(3)(e) (“domestic emergency”).