Administrative / Public Law · Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
Jacob Noah Jatta v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
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Facts
The claimant, a young man with autism, is represented in these proceedings by his mother as his appointee. He had previously been entitled to the highest rate of the care component and the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance, which remained in payment until 7 May 2024. On 10 April 2024 the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions decided that he was entitled to 23 points for the daily living component and 10 points for the mobility component of personal independence payment, giving him the daily living component at the enhanced rate and the mobility component at the standard rate from 8 May 2024 to 17 March 2033. That decision was reconsidered but not revised on 19 June 2024. The claimant appealed. The First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) sitting at Chesterfield heard the appeal on 28 April 2025, the appointee attending and giving oral evidence with no presenting officer present, and refused the appeal, awarding the same points. The central dispute concerned mobility activity 1 — planning and following journeys — and whether descriptor 11(f) rather than 11(e) applied. Upper Tribunal Judge West granted permission to appeal on 13 March 2026, and the Secretary of State supported the appeal.
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