Hi, my name is smelly3! I want to claim PIP
smelly3
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Hi everyone I'm new looking for advice in the future
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Hello there @smelly3 and welcome, what kind of advice can we help with?0
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I want to claim PIP but have been told that it's not based on having a disability, is that true. I have osteoarthritis and really want to claim.0
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PIP is not awarded based on a diagnoses it's awarded based on whether you fit the descriptors and can get enough points. Look online to get a guide of what the descriptors are and get family and friends to give an honest opinion of whether those descriptors apply to you. We tend to overestimate/underestimate our issues.1
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Thanks, I will get family to help me.1
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No probs x0
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Hi @smelly3 - & welcome to the community. Here's a link to the activities/descriptors that are looked at with PIP as mentioned above: https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/asset-library/personal-independence-payment-descriptors-and-scores-april-2022.pdfPIP is about how you are the majority of the time, & if you can do these activities/descriptors 'reliably,' i.e. safely, to an acceptable standard, repeat as often as one would reasonably expect, or if it takes you much longer than someone without a disability. See this mentioned at the end of the link above.If you decide to claim, then with your claim form you should give a couple of recent, detailed examples as to the difficulty you face for each applicable descriptor, i.e. when did it happen, where, what happened, did anyone see this, & were there any consequences to attempting/doing an activity?See also: https://www.gov.uk/pip
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Thanks1
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