Upper Tribunal cases without an NCN
A list of Upper Tribunal PIP cases without a Neutral Citation Number.
NB - in addition to the case law items included on the main pipinfo topic pages, we've collected here a number of Upper Tribunal judgments that may be of interest despite not having been given a Neutral Citation Number following changes introduced by the judiciary in April 2025.
Daily living - Activity 1: Preparing food
- Tribunal’s failure to explain how using ‘Hellofresh’ meal kit delivery service equated to a PIP claimant being able to reliably prepare and cook a simple meal for one amounted to error of law
- UA-2025-000554-PIP
- MG v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Daily living - Activity 1: Preparing food and Activity 2: Taking nutrition
- Upper Tribunal rules that ‘rituals’ relevant to PIP ‘preparing food’ activity should also be considered for taking nutrition activity
- UA-2025-000813-PIP
- AM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Daily living - Activity 1: Preparing food and Activity 4: Washing and bathing
- Tribunal’s failure to consider whether earplugs are an aid for PIP purposes, when used to block cooking and washing noise that causes claimant pain and distress, amounted to an error of law
- UA-2025-00283-PIP
- KW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Daily living - Activity 2: Taking nutrition
- Tribunal made inadequate findings of fact about PIP claimant’s need for prompting to take nutrition and the potential impacts of spontaneous vomiting and weight gain unrelated to overeating
- UA-2024-001607-PIP
- JS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Daily living - Activity 5: Managing toilet needs or incontinence
- Upper Tribunal highlights legislative gap on incontinence descriptors
- UA-2025-000807-PIP
- JW v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Daily living - Activity 6: Dressing and undressing
- Tribunal erred in law by deciding that a PIP claimant could dress to an adequate standard by swivelling a back-fastening bra and avoiding certain fastenings
- UA-2025-00546-PIP
- SD v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Issues - Tribunal practice
- Tribunal had insufficient regard to the Senior President of Tribunal Practice Direction for vulnerable adult witnesses
- UA-2025-001294-PIP
- MH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal erred in law by failing to engage with evidence of domestic abuse and its psychological impact on mental health and mobility
- UA-2025-001255-PIP
- GAH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Failure to adjourn PIP hearing when claimant became too distressed to conclude giving evidence amounted to an error of law
- UA-2024-001671-PIP
- NRB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal’s imbalanced focus on a PIP claimant’s employment, alongside its cursory treatment of medical evidence, breached its broad discretion as to how it weighed all of the evidence
- UA-2025-000375-PIP
- SS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal must set out reasons for finding previous lifetime DLA award to be irrelevant when deciding PIP appeal
- UA-2024-001687-PIP
- TH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal erred in failing to consider whether PIP application could be treated as an advance claim following end of employment
- UA-2025-000486-PIP
- NH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Issues - Reliability
- Tribunal must use its inquisitorial function to explore whether a claimant can carry out PIP activities reliably
- UA-2025-000673-PIP
- JE v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Issues - Fluctuating conditions
- Tribunal erred in law by focusing narrowly on claimant’s increased functional ability on the two days a week she worked, while failing to holistically assess limitations on non-working days
- UA-2025-001400-PIP
- SH v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Tribunal erred in applying DLA ‘significant portion of the day’ test to PIP claimant’s morning limitations
- UA-2025-001059-PIP
- AF v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions