Awaiting diagnoses

Hi Bobby33,

Your most likely help will be Personal Independent Payment - known as PIP.
You're assessed on how things affect you on a daily basis.
Your best bet is to check the guides on here, (but remember to apply for it). It's a long winded process usually, but mostly does tend to be beneficial to the claimant when done correctly.

Regards, Chris

p.s. - If you need any further advice, please don't hesitate to ask, and one of us will do our very best to assist you.

Also, I forgot to say, you apply from the DWP. More details on link below.

Regards, Chris

www.gov.uk/pip/how-to-claim

Hi Bobby33,
To add to what Chris has said...
Whilst the diagnosis may well be helpful for you, and is confirmation for DWP, it is not essential in order to claim.
PIP is awarded if your health condition/s prevent, or make the specified activities more difficult, or perhaps you need some sort of assistance.
However, receiving a diagnosis is not enough of itself to receive PIP.You would need to show that you health conditions cause you to struggle to perform one or more of the specified descriptor activities, (which you will find explained further in the guides as explained before.) You would need to score at least 8 points to get the standard rate or 12 points for enhanced rate.
If you wish to claim PIP, it might be helpful to write a diary for a couple of weeks. Think about the descriotor activities and what struggles you have, what happened, what help did you need/get and why. How long were you affected for, did any assistance provided actually help? May be you needed to take extra medication, maybe you still felt unwell the next day, or other PIP tasks were also affected etc etc.
Even if the problems caused by your health condition didn't relate to PIP activities, but there were other issues include these in the diary as this may also be helpful background information.
You can then use the diary to help formulate the responses for your claim form.
I hope this helps.
LL26