AT v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC): [2023] UKUT 148 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 27 June 2023.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 7 August 2023

• Categories: Benefits for children, Human rights law, Universal Credit
• Sub-categories: Benefits for children - other, Human rights law - article 8 (private and family life)
• Judges: Wikeley, N
• Decision date: 27 June 2023

Read the full decision in UA-2022-000858-UOTH.

Judicial Summary

Universal credit - Two-child limit - Claimant with 3 daughters, where two older children had been conceived in abusive relationships - Third child conceived in stable relationship - Whether exception to two-child limit applies to 3rd child - Universal Credit Regulations 2013 regulations 24A & 24B - R (SC, CB and 8 children) v SSWP [2021] UKSC 26 considered and applied.

Published 7 August 2023