TL v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP): [2025] UKUT 296 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wright on 28 August 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 24 September 2025

• Categories: Personal independence payment – daily living activities
• Sub-categories: Personal independence payment – daily living activities - Activity 9: engaging with other people face to face
• Judges: Wright, S
• Decision date: 28 August 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2023-001274-PIP.

Judicial Summary

This is a decision about activity 9 in Schedule 1 to the Personal Independence Payment Regulations (PIP Regs) 2013. It is concerned with whether the Upper Tribunal’s decision in RC v SSWP [2017] 353 (AAC) has been overruled impliedly by the Court of Appeal’s decision in Hickey v SSWP [2018] EWCA Civ 851. It decides that the decision in RC remains good law and can be read consistently with Hickey.

Published 24 September 2025