JW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP): [2018] UKUT 169 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Hemingway on 14 May 2018.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 23 May 2018

• Categories: Personal independence payment – general
• Sub-categories: Personal independence payment – daily living activities - Activity 2: taking nutrition, Personal independence payment – daily living activities - Activity 10: making budgeting decisions
• Judges: Hemingway, M
• Decision date: 14 May 2018

Read the full decision in CPIP/3257/2017.

Judicial Summary

A claimant might be able to show a need for prompting in order to make complex budgeting decisions even where he/she possesses the necessary intellectual ability and is motivated to perform other unrelated tasks. But the making of even complex budgeting decisions is not exacting.

A claimant might be able to show a need for prompting in order to take nutrition as that task is to be understood in light of MM and BJ v SSWP [2016] UKUT 490 (AAC) but that might be rare absent evidence of an eating disorder.

Published 23 May 2018