Choose from the options above for details of regulations and case law relating to the personal independence payment assessment. You can search by activity, issue or health condition to find out more about the legal framework and how the Upper Tribunal has interpreted the law.

Pipinfo helps advisers in assisting people to make a new claim for personal independence payment, and challenging decisions to refuse, or award a lower rate of, the benefit.

Note: The government is currently carrying out a review of personal independence payment to ‘shape a system of active support that helps people manage and adapt to their long-term condition and disability in ways that expand their functioning and improve their independence’. The Timms Review is due to report in Autumn 2026.

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