PIP claimants could be due repayments going as far back as April 2016
Thousands of people claiming Personal Independence Payments could be due repayments as far back as April seven years ago after a change to benefit rules. In July 2019, the Supreme Court handed down a judgment called the "MM Judgement" and this changed the way the Department for Work and Pensions considers the definition of "social support" when PIP claimants engage with others face-to-face, The Mirror reports.
The DWP previously decided PIP claims on the basis that if someone needed "prompting" to be able to engage with others they would receive a lower score. The DWP has also made around 14,000 payments to those who were underpaid due to the new ruling. In total, around £74million of arrears has been made by the DWP with more expected to come with the benefit department having identified around 326,000 cases to be reviewed.
In a written statement published by the House of Lords last week, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, Tom Pursglove said: "We are committed to making backdated payments to all claimants affected by this judgment as quickly as possible. So, as well as continuing to review claims affected by the definition of ‘social support’, we are also testing a more proportionate approach for claimants who might be affected by the timing element only.
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