Martin Williams
@martin-cpag.bsky.social
Welfare Rights Adviser at CPAG
In AP v SSWP [2025] UKUT 330 (AAC) UT comments on common practice of DWP decision makers in Universal Credit of stating a claimant is not entitled to seek mandatory reconsideration of a decision because it is "policy" (typically that happens when challenge involves interpretation of a rule) (1 of 5)
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
In AP v SSWP [2025] UKUT 330 (AAC) UT comments on common practice of DWP decision makers in Universal Credit of stating a claimant is not entitled to seek mandatory reconsideration of a decision because it is "policy" (typically that happens when challenge involves interpretation of a rule) (1 of 5)
Statistics Regulator tells the DWP to remove its claim that there is a 383% rise in number of people getting UC who have LCWRA since pandemic... most of increase due to benefit migration from ESA. Real figure across both benefits only 50% osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/corresponden... (1)
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March 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Statistics Regulator tells the DWP to remove its claim that there is a 383% rise in number of people getting UC who have LCWRA since pandemic... most of increase due to benefit migration from ESA. Real figure across both benefits only 50% osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/corresponden... (1)
Court of Appeal has dismissed SSWP appeal in case about right to reside for EU citizen on basis of self sufficiency (where source of that was UK partner's social assistance benefits but they did not increase due to his presence)- judgment and summary on CPAG's website: cpag.org.uk/welfare-righ...
Right to reside based on self-sufficiency
In a judgment of 15 May 2023 the Upper Tribunal ruled that an EEA national who was a carer for his disabled wife who was in receipt of income related ESA, in circumstances where the amount of ESA decr...
cpag.org.uk
November 29, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Court of Appeal has dismissed SSWP appeal in case about right to reside for EU citizen on basis of self sufficiency (where source of that was UK partner's social assistance benefits but they did not increase due to his presence)- judgment and summary on CPAG's website: cpag.org.uk/welfare-righ...
Reposted by Martin Williams
CPAG's response to the Autumn Statement, including your regular reminder that 71 per cent of children in poverty live in working families: cpag.org.uk/sites/defaul...
November 24, 2023 at 9:33 AM
CPAG's response to the Autumn Statement, including your regular reminder that 71 per cent of children in poverty live in working families: cpag.org.uk/sites/defaul...