Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment (PIP) – activity 3 (managing therapy)

Personal independence payment (PIP) – activity 8 (reading and understanding signs, symbols and words) – claimant profoundly deaf and communicated primarily in British sign language (BSL)

Personal independence payment (PIP) – descriptor 5(b) ‘needs to use and aid or appliance to be able to manage toilet needs or incontinence’ – bed wetting at night and reasonable need to use incontinence pads whether or not used

Personal independence payment (PIP) – transfer from disability living allowance (DLA) to PIP – potential relevance of evidence behind DLA award

Personal independence payment (PIP) – adequacy of Secretary of State responses to PIP appeals to the First-tier Tribunal – practice of not informing appellants of the of descriptors and points not awarded

Personal independence payment (PIP) – activity 9 (engaging with other people face-to-face) – an inability to engage with adults, irrespective of an ability to engage with children and young people, is sufficient to score points

Personal independence payment (PIP) – tribunals – should not assume that a claimant who has said that s/he is unable to attend a hearing that has been listed for hearing a considerable distance from her/his home would not want to attend a rescheduled hearing that was closer

Personal independence payment (PIP) – tribunals – claimant told tribunal appeal only about mobility component, not about daily living component

Personal independence payment (PIP) - transfer from disability living allowance (DLA) to personal independence payment (PIP) – potential relevance of DLA award to PIP decision

Personal independence payment (PIP) – ‘assistance’ – definition requires physical ‘intervention’ and is not involved where someone undertakes the whole task for the claimant