Miah v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Subject Matter

SOCIAL SECURITY — Welfare benefits — Universal credit — Benefit claimant requesting claim for universal credit to be backdated after claim granted — Whether request for backdating to be treated as revision of decision on claim — Whether permissible to revise date of claim after claim determined — Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c 5) s 1(1) — Social Security Act 1998 (c 14) ss 8, 9 — Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/380), reg 26(2)

[2024] EWCA Civ 186; [2024] 1 WLR 3012; [2024] WLR(D) 91, CA

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