Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment – supersession of current award

Personal independence payment – need to rest before starting an activity and to rest between activity

Personal independence payment daily living activity 1 (preparing food)

Personal independence payment (PIP) – tribunals – irrelevant questioning and perceived bias

Personal independence payment – client had autism spectrum disorder, schizotypal personality disorder and hyperacusis (noise sensitivity)

Personal independence payment (PIP) – evidence – can be relevant even though it post-dates the decision under appeal – medical evidence which does not specifically address the personal independence payment (PIP) descriptors should not automatically be accorded less weight – failure to put to the claimant adverse observations at the hearing

Personal independence payment (PIP) – tribunals – tribunal decision set aside and remitted to new tribunal as (on balance of probabilities) the decision maker had failed to issue the appeal bundle to the appellant and their representative

Personal independence payment Activity 4 (washing and bathing): the test is of the physical or mental ability to wash and bathe, not of quality of the result of washing and bathing

Jurisdiction – strike out of appeal against DWP ‘letter’ which did not constitute a ‘decision’

Evidence – fairness – use of ‘closed questions’ to claimant