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Can I claim pip for c.o.p.d

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Claires2905
Claires2905 Community member Posts: 2 Listener
in PIP, DLA, and AA
Hi have stage 2..possibly 3..c.o.p.d I currently work but am struggling more daily..and in constant pain..can I claim pip?
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  • wilko
    wilko Community member Posts: 2,458 Disability Gamechanger
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    Clares2905,Hello and welcome,
    PIP is a benefit that is awarded to help you cope, manage your daily living activities and is not awarded on a disability, diagnosis or amounts of medications you take. To qualify you have to have a face to face acessment having filled in a 40 page application form giving details of now your illness, disability or conditions affect you in relation to the PIP descriptors. May I sujest you do a self test to see how you would do should you apply for PIP.
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  • CockneyRebel
    CockneyRebel Community member Posts: 5,209 Disability Gamechanger
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    Hi @Claires2905 and welcome

    As Wilko says, PIP is awarded for how your condition affects your daily living and mobility. I also have COPD and currently receive standard  DL and enhanced Mobility. In some ways COPD is one of the invisible conditions which will normally require input from your GP and respiritory care team

    Be all you can be, make  every day count. Namaste
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  • Claires2905
    Claires2905 Community member Posts: 2 Listener
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    Thank you I'll look in to it..everyday is getting harder.
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  • CockneyRebel
    CockneyRebel Community member Posts: 5,209 Disability Gamechanger
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    I found it getting harder each day until I got my meds, nebuliser,  inhalers and home oxygen sorted. do you have a community respiritory team in your area ? If so you should get a referal to them
    Be all you can be, make  every day count. Namaste
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  • benelli
    benelli Community member Posts: 1 Listener
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    thanks to people who gave comments i have COPD but am not incapacitated so i dont think ill qualify
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  • calcotti
    calcotti Community member Posts: 10,010 Disability Gamechanger
    edited December 2022
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    benelli said:
    thanks to people who gave comments i have COPD but am not incapacitated so i dont think ill qualify
    PIP is based on a point score with points awarded for the difficulty you have carrying out specific activities. You need to be ‘incapacitated’ to qualify.
    https://www.advicenow.org.uk/know-hows/personal-independence-payment-pip-activities-and-descriptors
    Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Rules may be different in other parts of UK.
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  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,492 Disability Gamechanger
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    Welcome to the community @benelli :) As calcotti has said, it'd be worth taking a look at the PIP descriptors to see whether any of them apply to you. Perhaps you could take a look, and let us know what you think?
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