The Public and Third Sector Law Reports
[2024] PTSR 130
Upper Tribunal
IB
v
Gravesham Borough Council and another
[2023] UKUT 193 (AAC)
2021 July 21;2023 Aug 7
Upper Tribunal Judge Poynter
Social security— Housing benefit— Assessment— Housing benefit claimant eligible but not applying for student loan because of religious beliefs— Local authority treating income as including student loan and reducing housing benefit— Whether notional loan correctly taken into account— Whether claimant able to acquire loan by taking “reasonable steps”— Whether assessment of reasonableness confined to mechanical steps to be taken to acquire loan or including personal circumstances such as religious objections—
Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/213), regs 56(1)(2), 64(1)(3)(b)
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