The WLR Daily case summaries
[2024] WLR(D) 189
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— Child element— Claimant asserting that universal credit was capable of being broken up into its constituent parts each of which would become capable of giving rise to a discrete, legally enforceable, entitlement— Whether universal credit “severable”— Whether claimant entitled to child element within universal credit—
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems