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Martin Williams

@martin-cpag.bsky.social
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Welfare Rights Adviser at CPAG

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Martin Williams @martin-cpag.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
In AP v SSWP [2025] UKUT 330 (AAC) UT comments on common practice of DWP decision makers in Universal Credit of stating a claimant is not entitled to seek mandatory reconsideration of a decision because it is "policy" (typically that happens when challenge involves interpretation of a rule) (1 of 5)
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Martin Williams @martin-cpag.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Statistics Regulator tells the DWP to remove its claim that there is a 383% rise in number of people getting UC who have LCWRA since pandemic... most of increase due to benefit migration from ESA. Real figure across both benefits only 50% osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/corresponden... (1)
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Martin Williams @martin-cpag.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Court of Appeal has dismissed SSWP appeal in case about right to reside for EU citizen on basis of self sufficiency (where source of that was UK partner's social assistance benefits but they did not increase due to his presence)- judgment and summary on CPAG's website: cpag.org.uk/welfare-righ...
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Right to reside based on self-sufficiency
In a judgment of 15 May 2023 the Upper Tribunal ruled that an EEA national who was a carer for his disabled wife who was in receipt of income related ESA, in circumstances where the amount of ESA decr...
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Carri Swann @carriswann.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
CPAG's response to the Autumn Statement, including your regular reminder that 71 per cent of children in poverty live in working families: cpag.org.uk/sites/defaul...
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