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PIP and aids

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‘Aids or appliances’ in personal independence payment (PIP) has widely been interpreted as excluding items that are commonly used in the same way by non-disabled people. A recent Upper Tribunal decision reached a different conclusion. Carri Swann looks at the reasoning behind the decision, and asks what it might mean for claimants.
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DLA mobility and the severe mental impairment route

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Simon Osborne looks at the rule where a child can be entitled to the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance (DLA) via the ‘severe mental impairment’ route.
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Notional capital in UC: a real imagination

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Martin Williams discusses the rules under which universal credit (UC) claimants can be treated as possessing capital which they no longer have.
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Early Warning System update

EWS eBulletin - 2025 year in review

Read about what we’ve been up to this year and how your submissions have supported our work.
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PIP and work

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Carri Swann considers recent caselaw on how working can affect personal independence payment (PIP).
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Any time revision: an appealing prospect?

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Martin Williams considers the recent clarification of the law, by a three-judge panel of the Upper Tribunal (UT), concerning appeal rights where a claimant has unsuccessfully applied for revision on the ground of official error.
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Not joined up: child benefit and UC child elements

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Mark Willis looks at rules on children and qualifying young persons in child benefit and universal credit (UC).
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Welfare reform reformed

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Major changes have been made to official plans to reform personal independence payment (PIP) and health-related elements in universal credit (UC), and in related areas such as assessments. Susan Mitchell and Simon Osborne describe where we are now.
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Great expectations: universal credit and expected hours

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Some universal credit (UC) rules regarding work-related activity requirements affect claimants in different ways depending on the levels of certain thresholds. These thresholds should be set by reference to a claimant’s ‘expected hours’. Owen Stevens examines the rules on expected hours.
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EWS eBulletin – LCWRA and cancer treatment

Recently, we have been hearing about UC claimants who are undergoing cancer treatment and therefore unable to work not being treated as having LCWRA due to being ineligible for a work capability assessment. As a result, they are stuck in an in inappropriate conditionality group and losing out financially. This Early Warning System bulletin looks at where the DWP is going wrong and how advisers might help claimants in this situation.
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