[2025] UKUT 296 (AAC)

Appeal No. UA-2023-001274-PIP

Between:

TL

(pursuant to the anonymity order of 4 March 2025)

Appellant

- v -

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Respondent

Before: Upper Tribunal Judge Wright

Representation:

Appellant: Martin Williams, welfare rights worker, Child Poverty Action Group

Respondent: Denis Edwards of counsel

On appeal from:

Tribunal: First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber)

Tribunal Case No: SC240/22/00718

Tribunal Venue: Bradford

Decision Date: 6 February 2023

SUMMARY OF DECISION

This is a decision about activity 9 in Schedule 1 to the 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.

KEYWORD NAME (Keyword Number) 42 (Personal Independence Payment – daily living activities); 42.9 (Activity 9: engaging with other people face to face)

Please note the Summary of Decision is included for the convenience of readers. It does not form part of the decision. The Decision and Reasons of the judges follow.

DECISION