Who? Claire Hall, solicitor, Child Poverty Action Group.
Why is she in the news? Successfully challenged, in the High Court, HM Revenue & Customs’ refusal to accept a newly recognised refugee’s claim for backdated child tax credits covering the period since their asylum claim.
Thoughts on the case: ‘The government tried to characterise the case as a challenge to the policy decision to remove backdated support for newly recognised refugee families under universal credit, but it was never about that. It was about HMRC misapplying the existing law to the claimant, and other families who arrived in the UK and claimed asylum before universal credit was rolled out.
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Universal Credit claimant wins court battle over £11 5k child tax credit backpay
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