Telephone assessment booked with adult nurse, will she understand my difficulties?New claim
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Please try not to worry. It sounds like you've sent relevant information to show where you have difficulties. What you now need to get across with your assessment is whether you can do any of the PIP activities/descriptors safely, & the assessor may not ask you about all of them, just those where they feel they need some more info. So it's less about your actual disabilities, & just more about how these affect certain activities of daily living & your mobility. A few pointers:
- If you have kept a copy of your initial claim form, have a read through it.
- Ideally you should have given 1 or 2 recent, detailed examples of the difficulty you face doing/attempting each applicable activity/descriptor that is looked at with PIP, i.e. when exactly did this occur, where, what exactly happened, why did you have difficulty, did anyone else see this, & were there any consequences to this, if applicable?
- have a look at the PIP descriptors in this link, reading the notes at the end. The word 'reliably,' which is so important, isn't mentioned as such, but it's if you can't do an activity safely, to an acceptable standard, if you can't repeat it as often as would normally be expected, or if it takes you longer than a person without your disability. If you can't do an activity 'reliably,' say so, explaining why. Please see: https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/asset-library/personal-independence-payment-descriptors-and-scores-april-2023.pdf
- see if there were any gaps where you didn't give those important detailed examples for each applicable PIP activities/descriptors in your initial claim form. Try to include these in your assessment if asked about any
- you may be asked questions which you feel don't directly address the PIP descriptors, but they will, sometimes looking across a few, e.g. do you drive, do you have a pet?
- if you're unsure about any question, just ask for it to be repeated. Take your time in answering, & don't just answer yes or no.
- make sure your phone is fully charged, & if you'd like someone there to support you, put your phone on speaker phone so they can listen in. Good luck.
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Thankyou for your reply. It has helped alot. I think I need to stop reading the horror stories as its making me so anxious and stressed. So much is resting on this 😢😢😢 x1
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