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Just wanting to share something that come up on a recent case of mine.
The appeal was about a removal of an AIP for someone who was transferred from MIG to Pension Credit, my argument being that the award of an AIP was mandatory for people aged over 65 and could not be removed as official error.
According to the Pensions Service appeals section the Pension Credit policy group was consulted and they confirmed that this was their intention when drafting the regulations. Presumably this was to avoid deciding whether over a million people should have AIP's and the lengths of the awards.
In my particular case the client was resident in a care home on a retrospective self funding basis while her property was being sold. She was transferred from MIG to PC and sold her property in May last year. I'm sure people with more creative minds than mine can think of other circumstances where clients would benefit from the transitional rules for AIP's.
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