Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment (PIP) - failure to attend medical – appeal after attended rearranged medical

Personal independence payment (PIP) - mobilising – using a car – overall and holistic assessment required

Daily living Activity two (taking nutrition) – claimant with difficulty swallowing food due to pain caused by throat ulcers

Mobility Activity one (planning and following journeys) – wrong to restrict consideration journeys to ‘short’ journeys

Personal independence payment mobility component – is a special non-contributory benefit for the purposes of Regulation EC No.883/2004 – despite not currently being listed in Annex X of the regulation

Social support and engaging with other people

‘Vulnerable’ adults and tribunals – Practice Direction of the Senior President of Tribunals requires tribunals to ‘consider how to facilitate the giving of any evidence’ by (among others) a vulnerable adult

Inadequate response to tribunal by Secretary of State – tribunal needs to act fairly towards the claimant

Personal independence payment (PIP) - mobilising – using a car – need to consider all of journey

Activity 5 (managing toilet needs or incontinence) – claimant with numbness in hands due to peripheral neuropathy