Difficulties in resolving carer’s allowance cases by the local government appeals boards due to the lack of uniformity of decisions by administrative courts - selected issues
Izabela Oleksy-Piesik
Uniwersytet GdańskiAbstract
The carer’s allowance is a form of state support for persons who give up employment because of the need to care for a disabled family member. Its role is to reimburse a person who can work for the loss of remuneration. However, it is not the only social benefit of this kind. The fact that there are several
benefits, granted on the same grounds but at different amounts, is an unfavourable situation. Jurisdictional difficulties arising on the grounds of the apparent collision of benefits come down to the necessity of working out sucha legal solution that would most fully guarantee the party the right to choose the benefit that is most beneficial to it.
Guidance in this regard is sought primarily in judicial and administrative case law. Several – unfortunately – mutually exclusive positions are presented there. Each of them has both advantages and disadvantages. The study aims to show how: the lack of uniformity of decisions, the variability of the
views presented by the courts, as well as the lack of unequivocal instructions as to how to proceed in a given case affect the practice of law application. The fact that this is a real problem for public administration bodies, in particular
local government appeals boards, is evidenced by the number of cases of this kind being considered. The dynamics of administrative court jurisprudence translate into actions
of the bodies competent in matters of carer’s allowance. Above all, it leads to a situation in which it is not possible to respect the postulate of preserving the “established practice of adjudicating cases in the same factual and legal state”.
It boils down to the fact that in similar cases, different decisions are issued.
Keywords:
administrative law, carer’s allowance, local government appeals boards, interpretative doubts, uniformity of jurisprudenceReferences
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