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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals (20 April 2018)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria her Department uses for appealing decisions by the first-tier tribunal to award personal independence payments.

Asked by:
Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

The Department will only seek to refer decisions of the First-tier Tribunal to the Upper Tribunal, in Personal Independence Payment cases as well as those of other benefits, where we contend that the First-tier Tribunal has made an error in law. Each case is considered on its merits.


Answered by:
Sarah Newton (Conservative)
26 April 2018

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