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Upper-tier Decision CUC-2385-2016 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a1e68d6ed915d6662f29354/CUC_2385_2016-00.pdf Summary 1. The principal issue on this appeal is whether a room must be capable of accommodating a bedside table and separate clothes storage furniture in order to be considered a bedroom for the purposes of housing benefit and universal credit under-occupancy legislation. This might seem…

Decision CUC 1653 2016 https://www.gov.uk/administrative-appeals-tribunal-decisions/s-v-secretary-of-state-for-work-and-pensions-uc-2017-ukut-477-aac Summary In most cases, a failure to comply with a Universal Credit “work-related requirement” is sanctionable if done for “no good reason”. Does this mean the same as having ‘good cause’ for doing or not doing something? Does it mean the same as ‘without good…

CUC 2888 2015 – This is the first UC case considered at Upper-tier level and involves the treatment of earnings paid after the end of the claimant’s employment and after a claim for Universal Credit was made. Decision here But, see later Judicial Review decision, relating to 4 working, single parents,…

Hi Over the past three years, I’ve been pursuing DWP to make compensation payments for some of my landlord clients, where applications for Alternative Payment Arrangements (APAs), or “Managed Payments” relating to Universal Credit, have been mishandled, due mainly, to the department’s insistence on a failed policy of “Explicit Consent”…

Good afternoon The House of Commons Library published a report just the other day, in advance of Ministers and DWP being questioned in Parliament and at its Work & Pensions Committee, about the impact of “Full Service” expansion, so far, and what preparations have been made to accommodate the anticipated…

A7/2018 (revised) Universal Credit full service areas: Guidance for local authorities…

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A6/2018: Housing Benefit operational information, performance support and engagement 2018/19…

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A5/2018: Verify Earnings and Pensions Alerts service…

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A4/2018: Short-term specified accommodation, new LA IT functionality requirement…

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A3/2018: Social Sec (Misc Amds No.4 and 5) Regs 2017, Social Sec and Child Support (Care Payments and Tenant Incentive Scheme) (Amd) Regs 2017, and Social Sec and Child Support (Reg and Insp of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016) (Cnsq Prov) Regs 2018…