Pip forms for first time

Coolmum

The first thing to do is to stop thinking of it in DLA terms, DLA looks at the amount of care that the claimant needs, PIP is a functional assessment of their capabilities, can you do an activity and if not, why not?

I would follow the suggestion in the guide for answering each question, so for Preparing Food.

1. What is the health condition and what are the symptoms that cause you problems with preparing food? For example, stiffness caused by arthritis or fatigue caused by ME.
2. Describe the problems you have, giving details and examples if you can.
3. If you use any aids or appliances, list them and explain why you use them.
4. If you need physical help, supervision or prompting, whether you actually get it or not, explain what you need and why you need it, including if you need help when using aids or appliances. If you can’t manage even with help from another person and have to have everything done for you, say so.
5. Say when during the day or night you have problems. For example, is it all the time, mostly in the morning or just in the evening?
6. If your condition varies, from day to day or week to week, try to explain how much it varies and what problems you have when you are at your best, worst and average.

Once you have gone through the form once answering the questions (it might help if you prepare your answers on your computer so you can edit and add to them), break each activity down into smaller components, so again for Preparing Food, so might consider selecting the right food for a meal, preparing the ingredients for cooking, cooking the food appropriately and to a suitable standard, presenting the food for eating (e.g. removing it from hot pans, etc.).

Gordon