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IN THE UPPER TRIBUNAL Appeal No.UA-2023-000802-USTA
ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS CHAMBER [2024] UKUT 340 (AAC)
On appeal from First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber)
Between:
P.H.C.
Appellant
- v -
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Respondent
Before: Upper Tribunal Judge Wikeley
Decision date: 28 October 2024
Decided on consideration of the papers
Representation:
Appellant: In person
Respondent: Ms Emma Fernandes and Ms Jessica Cowan, Decision Making and Appeals, DWP
DECISION
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- The decision of the Upper Tribunal is to allow the appeal. The decision of the First-tier Tribunal made on 14 September 2022 under number SC154/22/01415 was made in error of law. Under section 12(2)(a
- Introduction
- The Appellant’s request for an oral hearing of her Upper Tribunal appeal
- The background
- A summary of the proceedings in the Upper Tribunal
- Making sense of ‘case closure’ in cases where identity is in issue
- Interpretation One: suspension and termination
- Interpretation Two: disallowance as penalty for failing to comply with a request for evidence
- Interpretation Three: claim not in the required manner (version 1)
- Interpretation Four: claim not in the required manner (version 2)
- Interpretation Five: disallowance under SSAA 1992 sections 1(1A) and 1(1B)
- The First-tier Tribunal’s decision in the present appeal
- The approach that the new First-tier Tribunal should take
- The evidence relating to the National Insurance number (NiNo)
- Conclusions