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Cite as: [2021] UKUT 219 (AAC)

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JS v Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council (HB) [2021] UKUT 219 (AAC) (25 August 2021)

Appellant with conviction for benefit fraud for failure to declare savings - Local authority decided he still possessed capital - Claimant said savings had been wasted on gambling debts - Three successive tribunals dismissed claimant's appeals - Appellant made further housing benefit claim which council again refused - Fourth tribunal proceeded with paper hearing during lockdown, having drawn inference that claimant had deliberately made himself unavailable for questioning - Whether fair to proceed with paper hearing

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