PIP Review - Pre-empting reasons to award zero points.

Hi Jon-987,
In these sorts of scenarios I always include a copy of the tribunal decision and explain the points that were awarded. Maybe you sent in a written submission (argument), to the tribunal explaining everything. If your health has remained the same as at tribunal you could include any submission, or just adapt it to reflect any changes in your disabilities. Emphasise that things are still the same or worse.
If you feel work is an issue, you could do a more detailed explanation of the work done and the (presumably) reasonable adjustments made to allow the work to be done. Maybe get the employer to write a letter confirming the adjustments and also to say how PIP are done ( or not) and help required.
Make sure you consider safety, reasonable time, acceptable standard and repetition (across the whole day as many times as reasonably required,) all 4 criteria must apply. You need to also consider what happens for the majority of days.
If more than 1 descriptor in a set applies, the highest value one will be the correct one, where this is equally. If not the most prevalent descriptor will be correct if they apply unequally.

I hope this helps.

LL26

Hi Jon-987,
In these sorts of scenarios I always include a copy of the tribunal decision and explain the points that were awarded. Maybe you sent in a written submission (argument), to the tribunal explaining everything. If your health has remained the same as at tribunal you could include any submission, or just adapt it to reflect any changes in your disabilities. Emphasise that things are still the same or worse.
If you feel work is an issue, you could do a more detailed explanation of the work done and the (presumably) reasonable adjustments made to allow the work to be done. Maybe get the employer to write a letter confirming the adjustments and also to say how PIP are done ( or not) and help required.
Make sure you consider safety, reasonable time, acceptable standard and repetition (across the whole day as many times as reasonably required,) all 4 criteria must apply. You need to also consider what happens for the majority of days.
If more than 1 descriptor in a set applies, the highest value one will be the correct one, where this is equally. If not the most prevalent descriptor will be correct if they apply unequally.

I hope this helps.

LL26

Hi Jon-987,
All 4 criteria have to apply.
If one or more of the 4 criteria can not be met, then you should receive points at the level appropriate to the disability.
So, if an aid or appliance is sufficient to keep you safe or to reach an acceptable standard when eg cooking then you should score 2 pts. However, if the only way to be safe/acceptable etc is to have a human to assist, then your level of PIP points is at assistance.
If an aid or human can not allow you to be safe, acceptable timely or to repeat for the majority of days, then it is likely you cannot, as per my example cook and prepare food.
If it helps please read this post that I have recently answered in respect of walking ability, the analysis of the criteria is the same for all PIP descriptors. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/kunena/10-dla-...ce-dependant-on-pain

Good luck.

LL26