High Court challenge piles pressure on DWP to extend £20 uplift to all benefits

Pintel wrote:Your quite right #Absolut, about 'requirements of business'. Seems claimants are nothing more than a commodity. Moreover, did we really expect any different outcome, between two gov run departments (dwp & The Courts ).
It's a shame we aren't still in the EU, the case could go to the 'court of Human Rights'? .

The government paid everyone on universal credit £20 per week from April 20 to October 21 but not to the disabled on Legacy Benefits. We all struggled the same and a lot of disabled people even more than others during the pandemic so I want it paid to them backdated.

William Ford, partner at Osbornes Law, who represents all four of the individuals who brought the judicial review challenging the failure to extended the £20 uplift to those on legacy benefits, said: "The court’s decision is a devastating blow to more than two million people who we consider were unjustly deprived of the £20 uplift given to those who receive Universal Credit during the pandemic.

"It is deeply unfair that those on so-called legacy benefits should be discriminated against in this way and we will look to see if we can continue to fight the Government on this issue to get our clients and everybody else on legacy benefits justice."

Ignatius wrote:Apparently permission has been granted to appeal to the Court of Appeal.

https://osborneslaw.com/news/high-court-decides-on-uplift-to-legacy-benefits/

(Sorry if the link doesn't work. My council must think this is a subversive site because the library computers refuse access to it, and hyperlinks and phones hurt my head).

Whilst the Court accepted that the regulations increasing the rate of UC in March 2020 (and those extending it March 2021) did not distinguish between new UC claimants and persons already in receipt of UC (with the effect being that all UC claimants received the uplift), Mr Justice Swift did not consider this affected the justification advanced by the SSWP.