A DISABLED grandfather, who claimed he was wrongfully stripped of benefits for a “vital” Motability car, has won his nine-month battle to get the payments reinstated.
Bob Bavister, of Artists Way, was told by a tribunal that the Department of Work and Pensions would be forced to reinstate his enhanced Personal Independence Payment (PIP) – just hours before he was due to attend a hearing in Southampton.
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