AB -v- Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: [2024] UKUT 376 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 23 November 2024

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 12 December 2024

• Categories: Personal independence payment – daily living activities
• Sub-categories: Personal independence payment – daily living activities - Activity 7: communicating verbally
• Judges: Wikeley, N
• Decision date: 23 November 2024

Read the full decision in UA-2024-001134-PIP.

Judicial Summary

This judgment decides that a bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA) qualifies as an ‘aid or appliance’ for the purposes of daily living descriptor 7(b) in Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/377).

Published 12 December 2024