DG v Bromley LBC: [2024] UKUT 49 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge West on 22 May 2023.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 19 April 2024

• Categories: Housing and council tax benefits
• Sub-categories: Housing and council tax benefits - recovery of overpayments
• Judges: West, M
• Decision date: 22 May 2023

Read the full decision in UA-2021-000447-HB.

Judicial Summary

Housing benefit – recovery of overpayment – regs 88 & 101 of Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 – whether failure to disclose material fact - West Somerset DC v JMA (HB) [2010] UKUT 190 (AAC) (“JMA”) distinguished – whether official error by the Council - MB v Christchurch BC (HB) [2014] UKUT 201 (AAC) (“MB”) considered – whether material contribution to Council’s mistake – appeal dismissed.

Published 19 April 2024