Caselaw summaries

Personal independence payment (PIP) – activity 9 (engaging with other people face-to-face)

Personal independence payment (PIP) - less favourable decision by tribunal – offer of adjournment not always necessary - representatives

Personal independence payment (PIP) - representatives – responsibilities when providing evidence to tribunals – medical records including highly confidential material

Personal independent payment (PIP) - mobility component – ability to ‘follow the route of a journey’ – overwhelming psychological distress

Personal independence payment (PIP) - activity 3 (‘Managing therapy or monitoring a health condition’) – diabetes (not well controlled)

Personal independence payment (PIP) - activity 9 (‘Engaging with other people face to face’) – the whole of Activity 9 is concerned with a claimant’s ability ‘to engage with other people face to face in social situation’

Pension credit (PC) - set-aside of Upper Tribunal decision - refusal to grant permission to appeal

Employment and support allowance (ESA) - work-related activity – substantial risk – whether claimant could be accompanied

Housing benefit (HB) – definition of ‘close relative’

Housing benefit (HB) - this decision of the Supreme Court (comprising several decisions in individual cases) concerns the lawfulness of the so-called 'bedroom tax' rules in housing benefit (at regulation 813 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006, SI No.213).