GH (deceased) (by his wife as his appointee/attorney) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP): [2023] UKUT 104 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wright on 26 April 2023.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 19 May 2023

• Categories: Human rights law, Revisions, supersessions and reviews
• Sub-categories: Human rights law - other, Revisions, supersessions and reviews - supersession: general
• Judges: Wright, S
• Decision date: 26 April 2023

Read the full decision in UA-2022-SCO000053-PIP.

Judicial Summary

Whether regulation 27 of the Personal Independence Payment Regulations can be disapplied or read under the Human Rights Act 1998 so as to allow the enhanced rate of the mobility component of Personal Independence Payment to be awarded after pensionable age in the case of a terminally ill person who had an award of the standard rate of the mobility component before he reached 65.

Published 19 May 2023