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Taking medication and the 50% rule

BC Welfare Rights
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The Brunswick Centre, Kirklees & Calderdale

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I’m sure that I read an UTT judgement somewhere that excluded Activity 3 from the general rule around something having to apply on the majority of days in order to score points but I can’t for the life of me remember where. Can anyone direct me or did I imagine it?

It seems to me that if someone forgets to take medication once or twice a week many meds will not work efficiently and because you can’t predict when they might forget them it doesn’t rule out 3b if someone only misses the odd dosage.

Do others agree?

davidsmithp1000
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Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project

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Seems fair.

Taking those points into account, my conclusion, not without hesitation, is that ‘needs supervision, prompting or assistance to be able to manage therapy that takes more than 3.5 hours a week but not more than 7 hours week’ means ‘needs supervision, prompting or assistance that takes more than 3.5 hours a week but not more than 7 hours a week to be able to manage therapy.’ It is a pity the words used did not say that unambiguously.’