LR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC): [2022] UKUT 65 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge West on 16 February 2022.

Read the full decision in CUC/1019/2020.

Judicial Summary

Universal Credit Regulations 2013 - regulation 66(1)(c) – unearned income - claimant in receipt of Irish widow’s contributory pension (IWCP) (which was not time-limited) – whether such a pension, paid under the law of a country outside the United Kingdom, was analogous to a widow’s pension as mentioned in regulation 66(1)(b)(vii), such that IWCP should be counted as unearned income properly to be deducted from any calculation of universal credit.

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Published 22 March 2022