![[2024] UKUT 131 (AAC)](https://backend.juristeca.com/files/emisores/logo_3a2BKne.png){kind=logo}
The parties to this appeal
The parties to this appeal
The Secretary of State appeals against the FTT’s decision and so is now the Appellant in the current appeal before the Upper Tribunal while the claimant is the Respondent. To avoid any confusion occasioned by their reversal of roles in these proceedings, I refer to them in this decision as the Secretary of State (or the DWP) and the claimant respectively.
- Heading
- The decision of the Upper Tribunal is to allow the Secretary of State’s appeal. The decisions of the First-tier Tribunal made on 3 May 2022 under file numbers SC242/16/08567 and SC242/16/00329 were ma
- The subject matter of this appeal to the Upper Tribunal
- The parties to this appeal
- The oral hearing of the Upper Tribunal appeal
- A summary of the factual background
- The Secretary of State’s decisions
- The First-tier Tribunal’s decision
- The Secretary of State’s grounds of appeal in the Upper Tribunal
- Some preliminary definitional issues
- Ground 1: the ‘work’ issue
- The parties’ submissions on Ground 1
- Discussion of Ground 1
- Ground 2: the ‘income’ issue
- The parties’ submissions on Ground 2
- Discussion of Ground 2
- Disposal
- Conclusions