Local housing allowance

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Title Type Date
Peter Barker, Exempt and Mixed Age notes

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica} Suggested answers by Peter Barker – independent HB consul...

Guidance
21/02/2022
Alexander Sobko v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2015] EWHC 580 (Admin)

B e f o r e:   MR CHRISTOPHER BUTCHER QC (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court)     ...

Caselaw
13/02/2015
CH/2566/2013

More on cooking facilities

Caselaw
16/06/2014
CH/2067/2012

"This appeal is concerned with the meaning of the phrase “the exclusive use of” in regulation 13D(2)(b) of the Housing Benefit (Perso...

Caselaw
23/01/2014
CH/0140/2013

The claimant and partner slept in seperate bedrooms. Their daughter stayed overnight some days every week in the longe to care for the father. There w...

Caselaw
10/01/2014
[2014] UKUT 36 (AAC)

JS v SSWP and Cheshire West and Chester B.C. CH/2067/2012

Caselaw
23/01/2014
[2014] UKUT 48 (AAC)

Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council v BF CH/140/2013

Caselaw
15/01/2014
CH/0756/2013

LHA and cooking facilities. In a helpful case, the UT has looked at all the arguments about "cooking facilities" in a room, the law, th...

Caselaw
22/10/2013
[2013] UKUT 546 (AAC)

LA v Bury Metropolitan Borough CouncilCH/0466/2011

Caselaw
05/11/2013
[2013] UKUT 363 (AAC)

MG v Carmarthenshire County Council and Secretary of StateCH/1940/2012Bedrooms

Caselaw
26/07/2013
CH/2483/2012

An important decision that clarifies joint tenants and the issue of same household. Unfortunately the case had to be referred to a new Tribunal on&nbs...

Caselaw
01/02/2013
Burnip v Birmingham City Council & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 629

See also[2011] UKUT 23 (AAC) [2011] UKUT 172 (AAC) [2011] UKUT 198 (AAC) CH/2823/2009   Before: LORD JUSTICE MAURICE KAY, Vice Pre...

Caselaw
15/05/2012
Updated notes on LHA (hbinfo)

Includes the 2012 under 35 rules and exemptions

Guidance
21/02/2022
Child Poverty Action Group v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions [2011] EWHC 2616 (Admin)

Decisions:i) the introduction of maximum weekly caps on the amount of local housing allowance is not ultra vires; andii) the Defendant did not fail to...

Caselaw
13/10/2011
CH/0999/2010

Can a claimant send in a new claim form and move from the "old" reg 11 scheme to local housing allowance without a break in claim? The claim...

Caselaw
25/08/2011
[2011] UKUT 156 (AAC)

CH/0107/2010AA v Chesterfield Borough Council and S of S for Work and PensionsRent restrictions – local housing allowance – categories of ...

Caselaw
07/04/2011
LHA amendments April 2011

This note explains the changes to the calculation and payment of HB in LHA cases from 1 April 2011; it also sets out what is known so far about the fu...

Guidance
21/02/2022
CH/0851/2010

Trengrove v Walsall MBC [2011] UKUT 172 (AAC)A claimant with significant disabilities had moved to independent living accommodation and required an ex...

Caselaw
21/03/2011
LHA Decision by First Tribunal

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Caselaw
30/06/2009
CH/1608/2009

Wirral MBC v AH and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2010] UKUT 208 (AAC)LHA - foster children are to be treated as an "occupier" w...

Caselaw
24/06/2010
CH/3000/2009

Wirral MBC v AH and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2010] UKUT 208 (AAC)LHA - foster children are to be treated as an "occupier" w...

Caselaw
24/06/2010
CH/2731/2009

The claimant was placed by social services in private accommodation, He was a former squatter and agreed that Housing Benefit would be paid direct to ...

Caselaw
20/07/2010
R (on the application of Saadat & Ors) v The Rent Service [2001] EWCA Civ 1559

... contention is that rent officers of the Greater Manchester Registration Area erred in law in setting the local reference rent which limited the am...

Caselaw
26/10/2001
[2010] UKUT 208 (AAC)

Reported as [2011] AACR 6CH/1608/2009 and CH/3000/2009Wirral MBC v AH and Secretary of State for Work and PensionsHousing benefit - maximum rent and o...

Caselaw
24/06/2010