SO v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP): [2023] UKUT 56 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Grey KC on 2 March 2023.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 29 March 2023

• Categories: Personal independence payment – daily living activities
• Sub-categories: Personal independence payment – daily living activities - Activity 2: taking nutrition
• Judges: Grey, E
• Decision date: 2 March 2023

Read the full decision in UA-2021-001660-PIP.

Judicial Summary

Personal Independence Payments - Consideration of ‘taking nutrition’ – whether eating to excess/over-eating can give rise to a claim under Activity 2 or a need for supervision or prompting – the role of physical and mental conditions in a claimant’s inability to stop the actions of eating or drinking even when the taking of further nutrition is no longer reasonably required.

Published 29 March 2023