The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 1 WLR 4918
Court of Appeal
*Simkova v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2024] EWCA Civ 419
2024 March 13, 14; April 26
Lewison, Green, Elisabeth Laing LJJ
Social security— Benefits— Universal credit— Claimant resident in United Kingdom claiming child element of universal credit in respect of son resident in Slovakia— Whether claimant entitled to child element under retained EU law notwithstanding universal credit being outside scope of EU law— Whether constituent elements of composite state benefit to be severed for purposes of entitlement—
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c 5), s 1
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Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 883/2004, art 3