VMcC v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (IS): [2018] UKUT 63 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 22 February 2018.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 12 March 2018

• Categories: Capital and Tribunal procedure and practice
• Sub-categories: Capital - Notional Capital: deprivation, Capital - Ownership/Possession and Tribunal procedure and practice - evidence
• Judges: Wikeley, N
• Decision date: 22 February 2018

Read the full decision in CIS/798/2017.

Judicial Summary

Whether funds in claimant’s bank account beneficially hers or whether subject to Quistclose trust - informal family arrangements for saving monies - claimant member of Traveller community - R(SB) 53/83 and CSB/1137/1985 compared - if funds still beneficially held by claimant, whether deprivation for purposes of obtaining benefit - cultural context and issues of credibility.

Published 12 March 2018