People on PIP may be due £5,000 back pay after recent DWP change to assessment rules

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Tens of thousands of people in receipt of Personal Independence Payments (PIP) may be due arrears going back as far as April 2016, following a change to the assessment rules for the Daily Living component around the definition of ‘social support’.

Around 284,000 existing PIP claimants and those who might have had heir claim rejected, are being urged to contact the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), if they think they may have been affected.

In July 2019, the Supreme Court handed down a judgment following an Upper Tribunal (UT) decision which changed the way the DWP considers the definition of ‘social support’ for Daily Living activity number nine.

The ‘MM’ judgment concerns the definition of ‘social support’ when engaging with other people face to face and when ‘prompting’ should be considered ‘social support’ in the PIP assessment, and how far in advance social support can be provided.