EW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: [2025] UKUT 307 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Church on 12 September 2025.
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Judicial Summary
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This appeal is mainly about the proper approach to assessing a claimant’s ability to carry out the activities contemplated by the descriptors set out in Schedule 1 to the Personal Independent Payment (PIP) Regulations where the claimant complains of fatigue, and a need for prompting, as a result of a health condition.
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In this case the First-tier Tribunal decided the claimant experienced fatigue not as a symptom of her health conditions, but rather as a consequence of her working a full-time job.
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The Upper Tribunal allowed the appeal because the tribunal should have considered the claimant’s ability to carry out the relevant activities at the times when it was reasonable for her to carry them out. It was reasonable for the claimant to go out to work, and where it was reasonable for the claimant to carry out an activity having completed a day’s work, her ability to do should be assessed on that basis. TR v SSWP [2016] AAC 23, AE v SSWP [2024] UKUT 381 (AAC) and GG v SSWP (PIP) [2016] UKUT 0194 (AAC) followed.