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Disability Rights Handbook 2026-27
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SECTION N: COMMON RULES TO BENEFITS
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SECTION N: COMMON RULES TO BENEFITS
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SECTION N: COMMON RULES TO BENEFITS
Chapter 51: Coming to the UK
IMMIGRATION STATUS: EXCLUSIONS AND EXCEPTIONS
1. Introduction
2. Immigration status
RESIDENCE AND PRESENCE
3. Residence and presence tests
4. Habitual residence test
5. Right to reside requirement
Box N.1: European free movement rights to reside
OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT
6. Other forms of support
Chapter 52: Leaving the UK
HOW BENEFITS ARE AFFECTED
1. Introduction
2. Disability benefits
3. Carers’ benefits
4. Maternity allowance and severe disablement allowance
5. Employment and support allowance
6. Jobseeker’s allowance
7. Universal credit
8. Pension credit
9. Housing benefit
10. Child benefit and Scottish child payment
11. Employer-paid benefits
12. Industrial injuries disablement benefit
13. Retirement, widows’ and bereavement benefits
Box N.2: For more information
Chapter 53: Benefits in hospital
HOW BENEFITS ARE AFFECTED
1. What should you do beforehand?
2. Hospital travel fares
3. What happens to means-tested benefits?
Box N.3: Housing benefit and pension credit: hospital-stay timeline
4. What happens to non-means-tested benefits?
5. Long-term stays
6. What about when you leave hospital?
7. Discharged before you’re ready?
Chapter 54: Claims and payments
CLAIMS
1. Making a claim
2. National insurance number
3. Backdating delayed claims
Box N.4: Interchange of claims
Box N.5: Can your claim for benefit be backdated?
4. Appointees
PAYMENTS
5. Payments
6. Universal credit advances and short-term advances
OVERPAYMENTS, PENALTIES AND FRAUD
7. Overpayments
8. Civil penalties and fraud
Chapter 55: Challenging decisions
CHALLENGING DECISIONS
1. Who makes decisions?
2. Ways of changing decisions
3. Mandatory reconsiderations
4. ‘Any time’ revisions and supersessions
5. Backdating after a change of circumstances
Box N.6: Backdating supersessions
6. When a ‘test case’ is pending
Box N.7 Grounds for revising or superseding a decision
APPEALS
7. Appeals
8. Making an appeal
9. What happens when you appeal?
10. Paper hearings
11. Withdrawing an appeal
12. Striking out an appeal
Box N.8: Human Rights Act
13. Preparing your case
Box N.9: Upper Tribunal and Commissioners’ decisions
14. If your circumstances change before the appeal
15. Special needs, access to the hearing and expenses
16. The oral hearing
17. The appeal decision
Box N.10: Errors of law
18. Appeals to the Upper Tribunal
Chapter 56: Challenging decisions: Scottish benefits
CHALLENGING DECISIONS
1. Introduction
2. Redeterminations
3. New decisions
APPEALS
4. Appeals
5. Test cases
6. Withdrawing an appeal
7. Dismissing an appeal
8. If your circumstances change before the appeal
9. At the hearing
10. The tribunal decision
11. Reviewing the tribunal decision
12. Appeals to the Upper Tribunal
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Chris Lewis. "SECTION N: COMMON RULES TO BENEFITS." In
Disability Rights Handbook 2026-27.
, 2026. Accessed September 29, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-272243CITANCHOR.
Chris Lewis. "SECTION N: COMMON RULES TO BENEFITS." In
Disability Rights Handbook 2026-27.
, 2026. Accessed September 29, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-272243CITANCHOR.
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Disability Rights Handbook 2026-27
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