{"id":93,"date":"2025-01-24T07:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T07:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/?p=93"},"modified":"2025-01-23T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:11:19","slug":"universal-credit-diversionary-recoupment-payments-to-landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/universal-credit-diversionary-recoupment-payments-to-landlords\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Credit diversionary\/recoupment payments to landlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly Legal has written up the important JR in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nearlylegal.co.uk\/2025\/01\/no-deductions-without-prior-warning\/\"><em>Roberts v SSWP<\/em><\/a> [2025] EWHC 51 (Admin), a decision of Fordham J (Links to NL&#8217;s blog).\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to repeat that discussion, but wanted to point to its relevance to Wales.\u00a0 The outcome of the JR is that &#8220;it is not lawful for the [SSWP] to direct her decision makers that it is unnecessary to give UC-claimants an opportunity to make representations before making payments to landlords under CAP reg.58 [payment to another person on the Claimant&#8217;s behalf] and\/or Sch.6 because doing so causes procedural unfairness&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly Legal has written up the important JR in\u00a0Roberts v SSWP EWHC 51 (Admin), a decision of Fordham J (Links to NL's blog).\u00a0 I'm not going to repeat that discussion, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/housing-law-wales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}