PIP MR

Sue

Their letter, ideally, needs to address the Preparing Food Descriptors and why you cannot fulfil them, for example; could you wear latex or rubber gloves over your cotton ones when cooking and if not why not?

There is a list of aids that the DWP will consider that you can use in the section for each activity in the PIP Claim guide, you need to explain why these cannot be used to overcome some of your problems.

Gordon

suep wrote: Thanks Gordon. Allergic to latex and nitrile and vinyl cause heavy sweating causing skin to macerate and itch badly. Derm did explain in a great letter send with my claim but seem to have ignored.

I think you need to go back to scratch, assessors and Decision Makers lack imagination and often fail to understand what I will call less mainstream conditions.

Start by explaining why you cannot deal with the cooking ingredients directly, be explicit about the results that happen were you to do so, then go on to explain why aids such as rubber or latex gloves cannot be used to help you overcome these issues, lastly explain why general cooking aids do not allow you to circumvent the problems.

If you have similar problems with some of the other PIP activities then repeat the above, don't assume that those reading the information will understand unless you spell it out in simple steps.

I'll be honest and say that the best you may be able to score for is requiring Assistance
which scores 4 points.

Gordon

Sue

Sorry about the pun.

You need to look at each Descriptor and show that you cannot complete it reliably on the majority of days, so if they are arguing the use of aids in the kitchen then you need to show that you cannot use these and why.

Gordon