[2024] UKUT 308 (AAC)

In September 2020 the Appellant’s DLA award would have been £83.30 a week (£59.70 DLA middle rate care + £23.60 lower rate mobility). Had PIP been in payment at that time instead, the new award would have been nearly twice as much (£89.15 enhanced rate daily living + £62.25 enhanced mobility = £151.40 a week). The difference between the two awards would therefore have been £68.10 a week. The aggregate differential over the entire period between September 2020 and December 2022 would accordingly have been (very roughly) a sum in the order of £7,700. That ballpark figure takes no account of the annual benefit up-ratings in April 2021 and 2022 and nor does it reflect the fact that the Appellant was ‘kept out of her money’ for a period of just over two years.