Cases

Charlie123 wrote: Has there been many cases setting precedent for PIP yet?

The last Tribunal Service statistical report said there had been 8 PIP appeals to date none of which had required a hearing i.e. all resolved between the DWP and the claimant.

Case Law is probably still six months away, if then.

Gordon

Charlie123 wrote: A right.. Thought there would have been more than 8 so far.. This do you think due to the idiotic slow progress of claims or people not bothering to take their claim to tribunal? By not bothered I mean the DWP giving the person the belief of no point.

I think it is a combination of two things, delays in the assessment process meant by the end of April we had only seen a handful of results, that coupled with claimants having to go through a Mandatory Reconsideration process which was supposed to take two weeks and is actually averaging 6-8 weeks, meant that very few claimants were actually in a position to lodge an appeal during the timeframe that the TS report covered, I would suspect the next report will be significantly different.

Gordon