Due for PIP assessment 18 months after completeing the review form and scared!

Hi Mason

You could do a dairy for a couple of weeks and send it in, but depending on postage and processing, it may or may not be processed in time.

I would not worry about whether or not you appear to have contradicted yourself. That is the case for many people and if you have a telephone assessment, you should have the opportunity to talk about how your condition has changed since you sent your information in. It is a long time.

BIS

Hi Mason

You can always appeal to your local authority about being turned down for the blue badge as you do not need to awarded PIP mobility to be awarded blue badge. Ifg you can get a doctors letter then that will help.

Gary

Hi Mason

When applying for PIP, it is not so much the condition per se that the DWP is interested in, but how that condition/s impacts a claimant's daily life and mobility as set out in the PIP criteria.

Read about the reliability element in the guide - if you cannot do something:

• Safely – in a fashion that is unlikely to cause harm to themselves or to another person.
• To a necessary and acceptable standard – given the nature of the activity.
• Repeatedly – as often as is reasonably required.
• In a reasonable time period – no more than twice as long as a person without a physical or mental health condition would take to carry out the activity.

then you should not be considered able to do the activity.

The fact that you can’t do the activity safely, to an acceptable standard, repeatedly or in a reasonable time, means you can’t do it at all for the purposes of the descriptors.

Flucturating condition is quite hard to document as PIP is based on the majority of time, as stated in a previous post keep a day diary, you can use this as evidence, there are some examples in the guides tab at the top of the page.

You are not required to walk pain free but any pain that restricts the distance that you can walk should be taken into account.

Specifically for the Moving Around activity, if you are able to walk but you are in severe pain when doing so, then you can argue that your walking is not to a necessary standard and should be disregarded.

The legal test requires you to stand and then move (walk), so if you have problems getting up then you should document this as well.

If you walk slowly then it must take you at least twice the time to cover the distance as a healthy person would, this could be down to the speed of your walking but could also be the result of having to stop.

You must be able to repeat the distance, so if you could walk it once but not then be able to walk it again within a reasonable timescale then you should be classed as unable to repeat the activity.

I'm afraid I can't tell you how to show your walking is more restricted but things you need to think about is what you can't do, for example where can you walk in your house, how far is the toilet from where you normally sit, things that will count against you are any trips that you make outside, so for example, how do you do your shopping?

You must be able to walk the distance you can, reliably and on the majority of days, both these terms are defined in the PIP Claim guide benefitsandwork.co.uk/guides-for-claimants/pip

So you need to explain what you can do, how you are limited and why.

Gary