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PIP Application for Aspergers re Mobility
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5 years 7 months ago #217539 by caroline moy
PIP Application for Aspergers re Mobility was created by caroline moy
Hi there, Any advice Greatfully Received from anyone with Aspergers who has applied for PIP in recent months. I am supporting my daughter who has to transfer from DLA to PIP (previously Standard for both D Living and Mobility) and am worried about whether the DWP will allow her to score enough points for Mobility. She can only score the 8 points she needs on Question 13 (Going Out/ Planning & Following Journeys) as she has no physical disability, so is not eligible to score any points for Question 14 (Moving Around). I have read the amazingly comprehensive Guidance for Mental Health and LD (huge THANK YOU to Steve and Holiday) and will follow it. However if anyone has any recent experience or advice we would be extremely greatful. I will post our experiences in due course as I suspect this issue will be affecting many others. Thank you
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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 to 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 not score points for following one and vice versa.
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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 to 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 not score points for following one and vice versa.
Gordon
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