From the Daily Mirror
Thousands of disabled people will be given higher benefits after winning a legal victory over the Tory government.
Ministers have been forced to rewrite Personal Independence Payment (PIP) rules following the defeat at a top-level court.
People will now get £70 to £90 a week extra backdated to the day of the Upper Tribunal, which includes a High Court judge on its panel, in March.
The government believes around 10,000 people will benefit by 2022.
The shake-up axes rules which said people can carry out tasks unsupervised if it's "unlikely" they'll come to harm.
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