People on PIP may be due £5,000 back pay after recent DWP assessment rule change
dailyrecord.co.ukThousands of people in receipt of Personal Independence Payments (PIP) could be due arrears from as far back as April 2016, following a recent change to the Daily Living component assessment rules around the definition of ‘social support’.
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is now urging around 284,000 existing claimants to contact them, if they think they may have been affected.
In July 2019, the Supreme Court handed down a judgment following an Upper Tribunal (UT) decision which changed the way the DWP considers the definition of ‘social support’ for Daily Living activity number nine.
The ‘MM’ judgment concerns the definition of ‘social support’ when engaging with other people face to face and when ‘prompting’ should be considered ‘social support’ in the PIP assessment, and how far in advance social support can be provided.
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