Mobility award for mental health

omr wrote: Hi, previously you could only get lower rate for mobility but with the new changes for mental health is it possible to get higher rate mobility? If so Under what grounds? As it confuses me.

The Going Out activity looks at three things.

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 - This activity about the problems you would have navigating a route. So are there problems cognitive, sensory or mental health issues that would prevent you from doing this? This is different from undertaking a journey, in fact if you cannot undertake a journey then you will struggle to score points for following one.

So to receive an Enhanced award just on points from the Going Out activity you will need to show that you meet

f. Cannot follow the route of a familiar journey without another person, an assistance dog or an orientation aid. 12 points.

As explained this is all about your navigating the route so any issues that you have with the task must link back to problems with your doing this, the PIP Claim guie explains this in more detail.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/help-for-claimants/pip

Gordon