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Supreme Court overturns DWP's 'grossly unfair' withdrawal of DLA from child in hospital

20 July 2015 by Val Bowen

The Supreme Court has ruled against the stopping of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) payments for a sick boy requiring hospital treatment for over 84 days, which had caused the parents financial hardship when they were assisting the hospital in caring for their very sick son. Acting for Mr Craig Mathieson, the father of Cameron Mathieson (deceased), Mitchell Woolf from Scott-Moncrieff Solicitors says: “The Supreme Court has found that by suspending Cameron’s DLA payments after 84 days in hospital the Secretary of State for the Department of Work & Pensions ( DWP )violated his human rights. While this judgment does not immediately apply to all similar cases, it enables around 500 families to seek the reinstatement of their DLA payments, so they will be able to afford to visit and care for their sick children having long-stay hospital treatment. View Press Release .It is also a really important ruling because it confirms the requirement on the UK Government to comply with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), which the Government argued should be ignored. The judges disagreed and held that the DWP should not discriminate against severely disabled children who are in hospital compared with those in the community. View BBC News

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