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Social security law [2025] NICom 29

ST v Department for Communities (ESA) (Good Cause)

ST v Department for Communities (ESA) (Good Cause) [2025] NICom 29 (23 January 2026)

The Commissioner allowed the appeal, finding the claimant had good cause for missing an ESA assessment because her failure stemmed from mental health issues linked to an obsessional trust problem.

  • Employment and support allowance
  • Good cause for non-attendance
  • Mental health and benefits
  • Tribunal procedure
  • Disability discrimination
  • Employment-and-support-allowance
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Social security law [2025] NICom 26

JMCA v Department for Communities (SPC) (Capital)

JMCA v Department for Communities (SPC) (Capital) [2025] NICom 26 (19 December 2025)

The Commissioners allowed the Department to withdraw its appeal and stated that personal injury compensation used to buy property remains disregarded in State Pension Credit.

  • State pension credit
  • Personal injury compensation
  • Capital disregard
  • Statutory interpretation
  • State-pension-credit
  • Personal-injury-compensation
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Social security law [2025] NICom 28

ST v Department for Communities (DLA)

ST v Department for Communities (DLA) [2025] NICom 28 (25 November 2025)

The Commissioner allowed the appeal, finding the Tribunal erred by failing to consider the second limb of the children’s test for DLA.

  • Disability living allowance
  • Error of law
  • Children's test
  • Appeal procedure
  • Disability-living-allowance
  • Error-of-law
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Social security law [2025] NICom 22

EF v Department for Communities (PIP)

EF v Department for Communities (PIP) [2025] NICom 22 (13 November 2025)

The Commissioner allowed EF’s appeal on PIP, set aside the tribunal decision, and sent the case to a differently constituted tribunal because of inadequate reasons and findings.

  • Personal independence payment
  • Error of law
  • Appeal procedure
  • Personal-independence-payment
  • Error-of-law
  • Tribunal-reasons
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Social security law [2025] NICom 23

HT v Department for Communities (PIP) (PIP - General)

HT v Department for Communities (PIP) (PIP - General) [2025] NICom 23 (10 November 2025)

The Commissioner found an error of law in a PIP appeal, set aside the tribunal decision, and sent the case to a differently constituted tribunal.

  • Personal independence payment
  • Appeal procedure
  • Error of law
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Personal-independence-payment
  • Social-security-appeals
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Social security law [2025] NICom 25

HT (PIP - General) [APPOINTEE] v Department for Communities (PIP)

HT (PIP - General) [APPOINTEE] v Department for Communities (PIP) [2025] NICom 25 (10 November 2025)

A Northern Ireland Social Security Commissioner allowed an appeal in a PIP case, set aside the tribunal decision, and remitted the matter to a fresh tribunal.

  • Personal independence payment
  • Appeal procedure
  • Error of law
  • Tribunal decision
  • Personal-independence-payment
  • Error-of-law
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Social security law [2025] NICom 27

EB v Department for Communities (ESA)

EB v Department for Communities (ESA) [2025] NICom 27 (07 November 2025)

The Commissioner held that the tribunal made a material error of law in an ESA overpayment appeal by misidentifying where pension income had been disclosed.

  • Employment and support allowance
  • Overpayment recovery
  • Disclosure of material facts
  • Appeal procedure
  • Employment-and-support-allowance
  • Overpayment-recovery
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Social security law [2025] NICom 24

AMCI v Department for Communities (DLA)

AMCI v Department for Communities (DLA) [2025] NICom 24 (21 October 2025)

The Commissioner allowed an appeal in a DLA case, set aside the tribunal’s decision, and remitted it because the tribunal mishandled post-decision medical evidence.

  • Disability living allowance
  • Appeal procedure
  • Error of law
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Disability-living-allowance
  • Social-security-appeals
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Social security law [2025] NICom 20

SP v Department for Communities (PIP)

SP v Department for Communities (PIP) [2025] NICom 20 (22 August 2025)

A Northern Ireland Social Security Commissioner allowed an appeal over inadequate tribunal reasons in a PIP case, set aside the decision, and sent it back for rehearing.

  • Personal independence payment
  • Error of law
  • Appeal procedure
  • Personal-independence-payment
  • Error-of-law
  • Appeal-procedure
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Social security law [2025] NICom 16

KR v Department for Communities (DLA)

KR v Department for Communities (DLA) [2025] NICom 16 (31 July 2025)

The Commissioner held the tribunal’s reasons were inadequate on a disability living allowance appeal, granted leave, allowed the appeal, and remitted the case.

  • Disability living allowance
  • Appeal procedure
  • Adequacy of reasons
  • Mental impairment
  • Behavioural problems
  • Disability-living-allowance
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Northern Ireland decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.

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