Pip Assesment experience

Nelone1 wrote: Ok so based on my minute answer I can only manage 20m, which is about right before some pain is felt.

They are not interested in any affects of said walking, just can you do it ? Tried to explain this but it falls on deaf ears

All activities must be done reliably and for the majority of days not to score points, so the effects of your walking or the pain that you experience should be taken into account, but this does not mean that you have to be pain free when you perform an activity.

Gordon

mommaduck wrote: Gordon, in response to your estimated walking speeds.

How does this tell the examiner how far your can actually walk?

You said 20 mtrs in a minute..50 mtrs in two minutes. The average walking speed is 90 mtrs in one minute.

My walking speed is 5 mtrs in 38 seconds holding onto something or someone and forcing myself to do it before I could go no further. This is in my home on the flat.

If I said that I could walk 30 seconds, would they then not assume that I could walk 45 mtrs?

It is quite easy to work out the distance that someone can walk if you know the distance that they can walk and can approximate their speed of walking.


Walking speeds used by the DWP:

90 metres a minute Normal
60 metres a minute Slow
30 metres a minute Very slow

Obviously this is a simplistic argument which takes no account of whether the claimant can reliably walk such a distance on the majority of days, but they ask the question because people tend to have a better understanding of how long they can walk, than how far they walk, unless they have actually measured both.

Gordon