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Legacy benefit claimants will not receive £20 weekly uplift back payments following new appeal outcome
18.01.2023 - 00:55 / dailyrecord.co.uk
An appeal over the £20 weekly uplift which was paid to Universal Credit claimants during the coronavirus pandemic, but not to around two million people on legacy benefits, has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
William Ford KC, the solicitor from Osbornes Law who represented the four claimants involved in the legal challenge, confirmed in a statement on the law firm’s website that the High Court had upheld the ruling made in the original hearing on February 18, 2022.
In the summary of the outcome, the Court of Appeal accepted that people on legacy benefits such as the claimants - two are in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and the third and fourth are on Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) - had been treated less favourably as a group and it was also accepted that there was indirect discrimination on the grounds of disability.
Mr Ford KC explains that the Court of Appeal then had to decide whether that difference of treatment could be justified.
The statement continues: “However, on this point, whilst the Court accepted that those on legacy benefits were ‘undoubtedly vulnerable’, the government had made a hard choice to prioritise those in the labour market, who they anticipated would become unemployed as a result of the pandemic.”
It added: “The judgement also acknowledges that the rates of legacy benefits are low and that any person required to live on that level of income would experience hardship.”
Commenting on the ruling, Mr Ford KC, said: “I appreciate that this outcome will be a great disappointment to many people on legacy benefits who have been waiting patiently for this judgement.
“All possible effort was made to persuade the Court of Appeal to reach a different outcome and it is
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