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2 years 5 months ago #272752 by Anxious Anonymous
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Are you allowed to have one off better days with your conditions on ESA and PIP? I always feel like I’m doing something wrong if I have a good day or I’d be seen to be doing something I’m not meant to in relationship to my conditions.
At the Scope forums, they’re saying you can still have a life even if the majority of the time, over 50% of the year you struggle.
At the Scope forums, they’re saying you can still have a life even if the majority of the time, over 50% of the year you struggle.
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2 years 5 months ago #272766 by BIS
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Hi Sierra
Yes, you are allowed to have some days better than others. This is the case for many people. It doesn't mean that you're not entitled to your benefit as having a 'better day' means different things to different people.
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Yes, you are allowed to have some days better than others. This is the case for many people. It doesn't mean that you're not entitled to your benefit as having a 'better day' means different things to different people.
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2 years 5 months ago #272768 by Anxious Anonymous
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With regards to the descriptor:
11. Initiating and completing personal action (which means planning, organisation,
problem solving, prioritising or switching tasks).Cannot, due to impaired mental function, reliably initiate or complete at least 2 sequential personal actions.
What does it actually mean? Is it washing/dressing? Not doing the laundry? Staying in bed all day due to depression. Staying up late because you can’t sleep? Fatigue where you don’t feel like doing anything? What exactly is it?
And does it have to be daily or majority of the time? Or. Do you score points for it? Or is it a descriptor you match in the support group etc.
11. Initiating and completing personal action (which means planning, organisation,
problem solving, prioritising or switching tasks).Cannot, due to impaired mental function, reliably initiate or complete at least 2 sequential personal actions.
What does it actually mean? Is it washing/dressing? Not doing the laundry? Staying in bed all day due to depression. Staying up late because you can’t sleep? Fatigue where you don’t feel like doing anything? What exactly is it?
And does it have to be daily or majority of the time? Or. Do you score points for it? Or is it a descriptor you match in the support group etc.
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2 years 5 months ago #272778 by Gary
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Hi sierra
As stated in a previous post, NS ESA is a benefit paid to you if your ability to work is limited by either ill health or disability.
question 11 focuses on your ability to learn (and remember) how to do things. If you can learn a task one day, but have forgotten how to do it he next day, you will not be considered to have learnt it.
Two type of tasks are considered: simple and moderately complex.
A simple task involves one or two steps. Setting an alarm clock.
Moderately complex involves three or four steps. Setting a washing machine.
What does it actually mean? Is it washing/dressing? Not doing the laundry? Staying in bed all day due to depression. Staying up late because you can’t sleep? Fatigue where you don’t feel like doing anything? What exactly is it? This would come under PIP, remember ESA is work related .
To score you must be unable to do the activity for the majority of the time, this is different from PIP which is the majority of days.
Gary
As stated in a previous post, NS ESA is a benefit paid to you if your ability to work is limited by either ill health or disability.
question 11 focuses on your ability to learn (and remember) how to do things. If you can learn a task one day, but have forgotten how to do it he next day, you will not be considered to have learnt it.
Two type of tasks are considered: simple and moderately complex.
A simple task involves one or two steps. Setting an alarm clock.
Moderately complex involves three or four steps. Setting a washing machine.
What does it actually mean? Is it washing/dressing? Not doing the laundry? Staying in bed all day due to depression. Staying up late because you can’t sleep? Fatigue where you don’t feel like doing anything? What exactly is it? This would come under PIP, remember ESA is work related .
To score you must be unable to do the activity for the majority of the time, this is different from PIP which is the majority of days.
Gary
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2 years 5 months ago #272779 by Anxious Anonymous
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I mean this descriptor, not learning new tasks.
11. Initiating and completing personal action (which means planning, organisation,
problem solving, prioritising or switching tasks).Cannot, due to impaired mental function, reliably initiate or complete at least 2 sequential personal actions.
11. Initiating and completing personal action (which means planning, organisation,
problem solving, prioritising or switching tasks).Cannot, due to impaired mental function, reliably initiate or complete at least 2 sequential personal actions.
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2 years 5 months ago #272783 by Anxious Anonymous
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Different sites say different things. Question 11. I think on Citizens Advice it’s Question 13 of ESA. The LCWRA descriptor :
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