PIP 1043 REVIEW FORM

info/helpneeded wrote: Thank you very much can we dettach the review form from perforated edge? Also the review form says tell us about any treatments therapies or surgery since your last claim. Can we put been no change since 2018 claim but still require assistance help with my graded exercise and why and symptoms it causes etc

Personally, I would not detach the pages although I would not expect you to get into trouble if you.

You can put no change if you want but you are relying on the assessor and DM referring back to your previous claim form, they are supposed to do this but if they do not then you are left with only the assessor's report as a description of your limitations.

As to the therapy, remember that it is only the time for which you need prompting, assistance and supervision that is counted, the time when you do not need this is excluded.

Gordon

Hi info/helpneeded

It will be scanned in black and white - any highlights will not scan well.

BIS

Hi Lynn

Welcome to the forum.

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In answer to your question; You are not required to walk pain free but any pain that restricts the distance that you can walk should be taken into account.

Specifically for the Moving Around activity, if you are able to walk but you are in severe pain when doing so, then you can argue that your walking is not to a necessary standard and should be disregarded.

The legal test requires you to stand and then move (walk), so if you have problems getting up then you should document these as well.

If you walk slowly then it must take you at least twice the time to cover the distance as a healthy person would, this could be down to the speed of your walking but could also be the result of having to stop.

You must be able to repeat the distance, so if you could walk it once but not then be able to walk it again within a reasonable timescale then you should be classed as unable to repeat the activity.

I'm afraid I can't tell you how to show your walking is more restricted but things you need to think about is what you can't do, for example where can you walk in your house, how far is the toilet from where you normally sit, things that will count against you are any trips that you make outside, so for example, how do you do your shopping?

You must be able to walk the distance you can, reliably and on the majority of days, both these terms are defined in the PIP Claim guide benefitsandwork.co.uk/guides-for-claimants/pip

So you need to explain what you can do, how you are limited and why.

Gary