DT v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP): [2020] UKUT 156 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wright on 26 March 2020.
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Judicial Summary
Whether First-tier Tribunal decision notice which confirmed the Secretary of State for Work and Pension’s decision under appeal awarding standard rate of both components of Personal Independence Payment but also recorded that the appellant was not entitled to any rate of either component of PIP constituted a lawful decision notice? - whether FtT’s prior direction for Presenting Officer to attend can properly be met by the FtT hearing the appeal, when no PO attends, simply saying the PO ‘chose not to attend’? – whether FtT properly concluded at outset of hearing, on an appeal against a supersession decision reducing entitlement from the enhanced rates to the standard rates of PIP, that entitlement to any rate of PIP was in issue on the appeal?