Revenuebenefits.org.uk Website Review

For access to the latest information on the range of HMRC ‘products’ including tax credits, child benefit and guardian’s allowance, national minimum wage and tax-free childcare.. as well as information and guidance on the transition from tax credits to NEW REGULATIONS (12 December 2018): Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2018 certain areas where higher rent increases are causing issues with affordability for private rented sector tenants who receive housing benefit or the housing element of universal credit >> More universal credit legislation - Whether a person who incorrectly has the disability element paid as part of their working tax credit award for the preceding year satisfies the conditions for entitlement under Case G (regulation 9(8) of the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations NEW REGULATIONS (5 November 2018): Universal Credit and Jobseekers Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 universal credit that reintroduce entitlement to claim housing costs towards rent for all 18 to 21 year old claimants, and extension of kinship carer support under the two child policy. Equivalent changes have been made in Northern Ireland by Universal Credit and Jobseekers - Whether a claimant who is challenging a deportation order is a person subject to immigration control >> More child benefit case law - Child tax credit - competing claims from separated parents for same period - Rule 2.2 of regulation 3 of the Child Tax Credit Regulations 2002 and the main responsibility test - question must be decided on appeal by FTT - whether FTT decision should be set aside >> More tax - Transition from tax credits to universal credit - claimant made a claim for universal credit by mistake - Secretary of State issued stop notice to Her Majestys Revenue and Customs - claimant later withdrew claim - nature of withdrawal and whether retrospective in effect >> - Failure by a First-tier Tribunal to exercise its enabling and inquisitorial jurisdiction amounts to an error law >> More universal