Mandatory reconsideration

Doodle

The Moving Around activity is about your standing and moving, points are dependant on the distance that you can reliably walk on the majority of days.

To score points, you must first show that the distance you can walk is not more than 20m!, you may be able to show this is the case because of the speed of your walking; you need to be walking at no more than half the speed that a healthy person would be expected to, I think it unlikely that anecdotal evidence of this will be sufficient, you need to provide empirical data of your walking speeds.

The Going Out activity looks at three areas.

Planning a route - this is primarily a cognitive or sensory (e.g. blindness) activity. You are being asked about the problems you would have with working out how to get from one place to another, you do not need to be able to follow the route that you are planning..

Undertaking a Journey - this is do with mental health issues such as agoraphobia and social anxiety and is concerned with you leaving the house to go somewhere, they will be interested in the things that stop you doing this. You need to show that you would suffer "overwhelming psychological distress" to meet the criteria.

Following a route - the DWP regard this as a cognitive or sensory activity to do with navigating the route, so you would need to argue that a seizure would leave you unable to navigate a route and do so for sometime after.

Although the DWP guidance refers to the use of Public Transport, the legally defined Descriptors do not and we regularly see Decision Makers deny points for this reason, so I would not rely on this.

Gordon