TRANSFER FROM IB TO ESA AND PIP CLAIM

angelcake

This activity is about being unable to cope with planned or unplanned changes in your routine. You score points depending on how much more difficult your daily life is made by your reaction to changes, so yes, an appointment at the hospital would be a relevant change to your routine.

Have you looked at the ESA Claim guide as this explained in more detail with examples.

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

Gordon

angelcake

The "appointment" can operate at two levels, first there is the issue of accommodating the appointment in your normal day to day schedule, this would count as a planned change, then there is the situation where having arranged the appointment, the date or the venue is changed at short notice for some reason, this would be an unplanned change, I am sure you can think of other examples for planned changes where you would expect to get reasonable notice, versus unplanned changes where you get little or no notice.

The things you need to explain are the types of change that cause you problems, this could be something big like the hospital appointment or one at the JobCentre, or something small (I am not suggestion the impact is small), like the bottles in your spice rack are not in alphabetical order, so you cannot find the one you need.

Then you need to explain the impact, so with the appointment maybe you do something at the time every week, to make time for it you have to move that thing to another time, but you do something at that time, so that has to be moved, etc. For the spice rack, maybe you have to take all of the spices off of the rack and sort them into the right order before you can pick the one that you want.

I hope that it explains it a bit more.

Gordon

angelcake wrote: Hi Gordon with the Jobcentre I don't need to go at the moment but can you talk about how future changes such as this would effect and distress you or do you have to give just examples of things that already distress you in terms of change.

This issue is also mentioned under exceptional circumstances in the going out section but it is saying that if it would create a danger to your health. I'm not sure it would but I doubt I would be able to fufill these things if I was put in the wrag group so it worth mentioning in the going out section

thank you

You need to separate them, so in the Coping with Changes you can use having to attend Jobcentre appointments as one of your examples, if applicable.

If you feel that you may qualify under the Exceptional Circumstances Regulations, R29 that work would be a danger to your health, or R35 that Work Related Activity would be a danger to you then you need to specify this separately in the Other Information section.

Gordon