PIP Assessment Home Visit

Kaye

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The main issue associated with a claimant receiving treatment is whether it will affect their care or mobility needs over the next 9 months. this is undoubtedly complicated if you have waited 10 months. If his daily needs have not changed then this should not be an issue with the assessor.

The word "treatment" is not defined in regard to PIP but "therapy" is

“Therapy” means therapy to be undertaken at home which is prescribed or recommended by a—
(a) registered –
(i) doctor;
(ii) nurse; or
(iii) pharmacist; or
(b) health professional regulated by the Health Professions Council

The key aspect is that it is carried out at home or to be more precise a domestic setting, so any treatments being carried out in a hospital is unlikely to fall under this heading.

I think it unlikely that the assessor will pay too much attention to your husbands long term prognosis in making a recommendation as to the level of award that he should get, they will in regard to the length of the award. They are primarily concerned with you husbands daily needs on the day of the assessment, so how he might be at some time in the future is beyond their remit Disability and sickness benefits always look at the claimants health at a point in time, it is assumed/required that the claimant will notify the DWP should their condition change and effect the level of benefit they should be receiving.

Gordon