Index card Simkova v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Hearings

[2024] EWCA Civ 419;

15 Feb 2023 [2023] UKUT 44 (AAC), UT

26 Apr 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 419; [2024] 1 WLR 4918; [2024] WLR(D) 189, CA (Lewison, Green, Elisabeth Laing LJJ)

08 Oct 2024 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court given, SC(E)

19 Nov 2025 [2025] UKSC 41; [2025] 1 WLR 5417; [2025] WLR(D) 594, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen, Lady Rose, Lord Richards JJSC)

Additional names

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v MS

Subject Matter

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

[2024] EWCA Civ 419; [2024] 1 WLR 4918; [2024] WLR(D) 189, CA

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 — Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 883/2004, art 3

[2024] EWCA Civ 419; [2024] 1 WLR 4918; [2024] WLR(D) 189, CA

[2025] UKSC 41; [2025] 1 WLR 5417; [2025] WLR(D) 594, SC(E)

Appellate History

Simkova v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2023] UKUT 44 (AAC), UT

Decision of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) affirmed

Simkova v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2024] EWCA Civ 419; [2024] 1 WLR 4918; [2024] WLR(D) 189, CA

Simkova v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2024] EWCA Civ 419;

Decision of the Court of Appeal affirmed

Simkova v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025] UKSC 41; [2025] 1 WLR 5417; [2025] WLR(D) 594, SC(E)

Simkova v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2024] EWCA Civ 419; [2024] 1 WLR 4918; [2024] WLR(D) 189, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal affirmed

Simkova v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025] UKSC 41; [2025] 1 WLR 5417; [2025] WLR(D) 594, SC(E)