[2024] UKUT 305 (AAC)

“there is no provision in the Regulations, including Regulation 70 specifically stating that the WGLG should be excluded in full, or in any amount, from a student’s income when calculating that students’ entitlement to Universal Credit” (paragraph 21 of the Tribunal’s reasons);

all Welsh students received a “base amount” of WGLG of £1,000 and “this base grant is disregarded pursuant to regulation 68(4) when a student receives a loan and a WGLG” (paragraph 22);

the “maximum loan amount which the Appellant received…should be taken into account…- Regulation 69(1). But the “base amount of” of WGLG in the sum of £1,000 which she received is disregarded” (paragraph 23);

since the Appellant “receives a WGLG with a Special Support Grant…the [DWP] correctly took into account her WGLG in full…I am persuaded by the [DWP’s] contention that in the appellant’s circumstances the WGLG is added onto her loan because the maximum loan amount available would be reduced by the same amount of her grant” (paragraph 24).