Any advice greatfully accepted on PIP

mishyclaire

The first thing you need to consider is how safe your Care award is as an appeal against the Mobility Decision can be extended to include this component as well and whilst it is unlikely that it would be remover it is still a possibility.

The DWP should only assess your capability to walk when you can so reliably, this covers four areas

• Safely – in a fashion that is unlikely to cause harm to themselves or to another person.
• To a necessary and appropriate standard – given the nature of the activity.
• Repeatedly – as often as is reasonably required.
• In a timely manner – in a reasonable time period.

In particular, Safely takes considers your ability to perform an activity when you experience pain, unfortunately, PIP has no legal definition of the level of pain that a person has to be in before there doing the activity can be excluded, although the DWP Assessment guide does make reference to "severe discomfort such as breathlessness, pain or fatigue"

If you decide to challenge the lack of a Mobility award then you will first need to request a Mandatory Reconsideration, our PIP MR & Appeal guide explains how to do this, it also explains how to request the assessment report which will give you a better understanding of how the DM cam to their conclusion.

I would also have a look at the PIP Assessment guide in the PIP section, this has some worked examples for assessors on how to make a recommendation on how far a claimant can walk.

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

If you have any questions on the above then please reply to this post and we will do our best to help.

Gordon