Two severely disabled men have won a landmark legal challenge against the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), with a scathing judgement handed down today.
The two men, known as TP and AR challenged the DWP over a failure to provide adequate transitional payments to protect them and others from a cliff-edge loss of income following their move on to Universal Credit (UC)
The scathing judgement found that the DWP discriminated against the pair when it didn’t compensate them the full £180 a month difference in the payments they received on legacy benefits and the payments they received on UC when they moved into an area where UC had already been rolled out.
