Challenge to lawfulness of regulations applying a discount to payments of housing benefits when there was deemed to be a spare bedroom.
Held: The appeal succeeded in part.
Judges:
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, CJ, Tomlinson LJ, Vos LJ
Citations:
[2016] EWCA Civ 29, [2016] WLR(D) 36
Links:
Statutes:
Housing Benefit Regulations 2006
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – MA and Others, Regina (on The Application of) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions SC 9-Nov-2016
The appellants claimed housing benefit. They appealed against rejection of their claims that the imposition of limits to the maximum sums payable, ‘the bedroom tax’, was unlawful on equality grounds. The claimants either had disabilities, or lived . .
Cited – RR v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions SC 13-Nov-2019
Housing benefit regulations had been found unlawful and were amended. The Court now considered what payments should have been made before the amendments came into effect.
Held: The appeal was allowed, and RR’s housing benefit entitlement is to . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Benefits, Housing
Updated: 09 May 2022; Ref: scu.559354
