DLA to PIP help

j112009

The Going Out activity is split into three sub-activities. It does not deal with physical problems these are covered under the Moving Around activity.

Planning a route - this is primarily a cognitive or sensory (e.g. blindness) activity and is concerned with the claimants ability to plan a route between locations.

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. If you can leave the house but risk not getting to your destination then you will need to explain what stops you. 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, to score for mental health issues you will need to show that your anxiety is so extreme that it would prevent you from actually navigating the route.

Gordon

j112009 wrote: Hello,
It's likely that the extra pages won't fit in the envelope can I just write the address on a larger envelope and pay for Special delivery when the time comes?

It had to be back on 2nd jan and I don't think it will be ready by then and with two weeks of bank hols on Tuesdays. If we ring up for an extension do you have to give a reason? Both BF and myself have mental health problems and it's causing havoc here

That should be no problem, just copy the address on the envelope.

Gordon

j112009 wrote: We are going to ring for an extension today as we have 2nd Jan as the last return date and 3 days when post offices are closed. Do we have to give them a reason as to why we want an extension? I won't be able to get it back by then still waiting on GP and CPN.

Also have heard elsewhere that the pip system is having problems logging PIP2 forms and requests for extensions. Have you heard anything about this?

Yes you will need to give a reason.

I haven't heard of any issues with logging requests, there have been a couple of occasions recently when the computer system was down.

Gordon