Planning and following

Just thought I would add concerning how far in what time.
Having recently received an assessment letter to attend a centre some miles away included were a few varying journey suggestions by bus. Within these it states distances to bus stops and to centre from bus stop and the times it will take to walk the distances. According to them you can walk 99' in 1 min also 369' in 1 minute and 0.2 miles in 1 minute plus many other distance/time calculations which if you travel any one of their journey suggestions mean you can easily walk between 3 and 4 miles an hour for 21 to 28 minutes and stand at bus stops for 33minutes from their written calculations. So if you struggle and follow one of these and let them know in assessment which one you followed all they have to do is send copy of route to decisions maker with distance /times and you can see why no mobility award. Luckily I am now getting home assessment but to others who receive these journey guides take time to see exactly what they are suggesting regarding how far in how little time.

Hi,

What is the current situation on planning and following criteria? Been reading conflicting things regarding the recent Jacob decision.

Charlie123 wrote: Hi,

What is the current situation on planning and following criteria? Been reading conflicting things regarding the recent Jacob decision.

Hi C123,

Nothing has "changed" as such you should still pose the same arguments !!

There has been a more recent ruling on this in : 2015 UKUT 694 AAC , where Judge Ward has come down in favour of Jacobs rather than Agnew, as covered : Here.

I notice that you have previous PIP topics which I will merge with this one for continuity.

You have queries in another member's topic : Here

You should Bookmark/Favourite this page in your Internet Browser now. That way you can return to this topic easily to pose any further queries that you may have by replying to the topic.

See : This Topic also !

Thanks in anticipation of your future co-operation in keeping all your PIP related queries to this topic !

bro58

I have written to my consultant asking to confirm my diagnoses and he obliged . However failed to comment on it causes me problems in my daily life. So only a sentence stating the name of what I have.

Seems to be a problem getting any support showing how things impact on my life. Will this create issues? My GP said he does DWP stuff every day. He gets asked how things impact and he says he would not know as does not live with the person- fair enough!

So what if the person only has prove of what they suffer from? Will the DWP be able to take from that the known impact such a illness has?

Thanks.