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The FTT’s case management
The FTT’s case management
On 30 May 2022, the FTT issued directions deeming the appeal notified on 16 December 2021 a duplicate of the appeal notified on 20 March 2021; the directions said that Mrs W was making one challenge through the appeal that was first notified; there was no need for the appeal notified second, as it raised the same grounds of appeal.
- Heading
- The decision of the Upper Tribunal is to dismiss the appeal. The decision of the First-tier Tribunal did not involve an error of law
- Background
- Mr W’s PIP award
- Mrs W’s new claim for carer’s allowance
- The FTT’s case management
- The challenged FTT decision
- The Upper Tribunal proceedings
- Other case management by the Upper Tribunal
- Why I have concluded that there was no material error of law in the challenged FTT decision
- First main issue: should Mrs W’s new carer’s allowance award have been “backdated” to the start of Mr W’s PIP award?
- Was the FTT’s decision on Mr W’s PIP appeal a decision on appeal awarding a qualifying benefit ?
- Was Mrs W’s carer’s allowance claim made “within three months of” the FTT’s decision on Mr W’s PIP appeal?
- Second main issue: did the Respondent undertake “mandatory reconsideration” of its decision on Mrs W’s new carer’s allowance claim?
- Other issues raised by Mrs W
- Conclusions