[2024] UKUT 450 (AAC)

The FtT allowed the Appellant’s appeal to the extent that he was entitled to standard rate for the mobility component, satisfying mobility descriptor 2c ‘can stand and then move unaided more than 20 metres but no more than 50 metres’. For the daily living activities, he scored 2 points for 4b (washing and bathing) and 2 points for 6b (dressing and undressing) and therefore was below the threshold for entitlement to the daily living activities component of PIP.

Central to the FtT’s reasoning for awarding the Appellant the above points, was his experience of breathing difficulties and breathlessness (see [21-24],[29] and [33] of the Statement of Reasons “SoR”). The FtT had before them medical evidence from a Consultant Chest Physician dated 27 June 2023, which confirmed that at the material time (20 June 2022), ‘[BC] is a gentleman who was treated for pulmonary tuberculosis at [C] University Hospital in 2019. He completed treatment but has been left with very marked scarring in both lungs, with the right upper lobe almost completely destroyed.’