Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment (PIP) - medical evidence - First-tier Tribunal can direct a medical examination and report if it considers that necessary

Disability living allowance (DLA) - low rate mobility component after age 65 - attempt to get high rate for deterioration

Attendance allowance (AA) - competent state - attendance allowance

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - right to reside - social assistance not a labour-market related benefit

Personal independence payment (PIP) - aid or appliance - use of a bed when getting dressed

Personal independence payment (PIP) - descriptor 4e: 'Needs assistance to be able to get in or out of a bath or shower' - in wording 'bath or shower' the word 'or' is disjunctive, so inability to get in or out of either: a bath or a shower will suffice to apply the descriptor

Income support (IS) - imposition of penalty is discretionary even if conditions for imposing it are satisfied

Disability living allowance (DLA) - disabled child - night time attention test and 'substantially in excess' test

Personal independence payment (PIP) - activity 9 'engaging with other people face to face' - difference between need for 'prompting' (descriptor 9b) and need for 'social support' (descriptor 9c)

Pension credit (PC) - overpayment - failure to disclose and DWP computer interface - causation