Universal Credit in UK Law
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R (TP and AR) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
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In any event, the material before court does not establish that the Transitional Regulations as they stand strike a fair balance between the interests of the individual and the interests of the community in bringing about a phased transition to universal credit. In all the circumstances of this case, the operation of the implementation arrangements in the way they do is manifestly without reasonable foundation and fails to strike a fair balance.
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Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Danielle Johnson
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We need to consider what are the disadvantages of deciding not to “fine-tune” the Regulations thereby allowing the non-banking day salary shift problem to persist unresolved; what are the disadvantages of adopting a solution to the non-banking day salary shift problem; would a solution be consistent or inconsistent with the nature of the universal credit regime; and has a reasonable balance been struck by the SSWP — or rather is it possible to say that no reasonable Secretary of State would have struck the balance in the way the SSWP has done in this case?
The effect of these swings in universal credit award and monthly income is described in detail in the witness statements of the Respondents. Ms Johnson states that she finds it impossible to budget for sudden drops in income in the months following an assessment period in which two salary instalments have been counted. She becomes overdrawn at the bank during the month in which the low universal credit award is received.
The duration of the impact on the Respondents: At present there is no way for the Respondents themselves to put matters right once the start and end dates of their assessment periods are fixed by the date on which they submit their claim. As the table in para 60 above shows, the problem arises in several months each year and will last throughout the years of the claimant's period of entitlement.
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R (on the application of DA and Others) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
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For by then there was — and there still remains — clear authority both in the Humphreys case and in the bedroom tax case for the proposition that, at any rate in relation to the government's need to justify what would otherwise be a discriminatory effect of a rule governing entitlement to welfare benefits, the sole question is whether it is manifestly without reasonable foundation.
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Humphreys v Revenue and Customs Commissioners
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Under the new system, a single tax credit is payable in respect of each child, irrespective of whether the claimant is in or out of work, and is administered by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). CTC is like income support and jobseeker's allowance, in that it is a benefit rather than a disregard and it is means-tested, so that the higher one's income the less the benefit, until eventually it tapers out altogether.
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R (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
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If this prerequisite is satisfied, the essential question for the court is whether the alleged discrimination, that is, the difference in treatment of which complaint is made, can withstand scrutiny. There may be such an obvious, relevant difference between the claimant and those with whom he seeks to compare himself that their situations cannot be regarded as analogous.
- The Universal Credit Regulations 2013
- The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013
- The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013
- The Universal Credit (EEA Jobseekers) Amendment Regulations 2015
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Universal Credit, ‘Positive Citizenship’, and the Working Poor: Squaring the Eternal Circle?
This article examines the potential effects of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 on the United Kingdom social security system, and on claimants. This legislation illustrates new modes of thought and ideo...
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Universal credit, ideology and the politics of poverty.
...Universal Credit was the centrepiece of Iain Duncan Smith's reforms at the Department for Work and Pensions between 2010 and 2016. It has been widely criticized and its delivery beset by problems. To understand the policy, though, and how it might be......
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Contemporary UK wage floors and the calculation of a living wage
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how the voluntary living wage (LW) in the UK is set. It examines how this calculation relates to contemporary approaches to setting wage floors, bo......... by state support forhouseholds, especially tax credits and Universal Credit.Originality/value –The paper clarifies how the setting of the UK ......
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THE LIBRARIAN AS CUSTODIAN; OR, A POLICEMAN'S LOT … ?
It is a great pleasure and a signal distinction to be invited to contribute to this issue in honour of Geoffrey Woledge, formerly Librarian of the British Library of Political and Economic Science.......... and practical consideration before being accepted or rejected, and credit was always given where it was due, not then—or even now—a particularly universal custom. I would like to think he will approve the sense of what follows, ......
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Chapter IDG52910
......This provides for the introduction of the Universal Credit from 2013, and has consequences for the legal bases upon which HMRC ......
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Chapter TCM0230060
...... need to check whether the overpayment in dispute relates to a Universal Credit case. For how to do this, use TCM1000630. Step 1. If you want to ......
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Chapter IDG51200
...... when dealing with National Insurance Contributions (NICs), tax credit applicants, social security benefit claimants and pension credit ... Reform Act 2012 which provides for the introduction of the Universal Credit from 2013, has consequences for the legal bases upon which HMRC may ......
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Chapter HSTM02300
...... eligible for Tax Credits at the first reference point, and for Universal Credits at the second reference point, they would meet the benefit ... First benefit entitlement condition: Working Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit. In order to meet the first benefit entitlement ......