Enquireing about claiming PIP for having a stutter

hu44

Ive newly found out that having a stutter is classed as a disability Ive also recently been informed of claiming PIP for having a stutter and would like to know how true this is.

poppy123456

HI and welcome,

PIP isn't awarded based on any diagnosis, it's how those conditions affect your ability to carry out daily activity based on the PIP descriptors. It will totally depend on how much the stutter affects your daily life. PIP descriptors include things like washing/bathing, dressing/undressing, communicating, preparing food, budgeting, toilet needs etc etc.

Without knowing everything about your conditions i would say the a stutter would only affect your communicating.

You can have a disability but if you don't fit the PIP descriptors then you won't score the points needed for an award.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/sick-or-disabled-people-and-carers/pip/

janer1967

Hi and welcome 

Pip is about how your disability affects your daily living against a set if descriptors such as preparing food. bathing , eating , dressing , finances , communication,  mobility amongst others 

We cant really say if you would be eligible 

Have a look at the descriptors and see if you think you would score enough points for an award 

There are lots of tips in our Pip section 

Chloe_Scope

Welcome to the community @hu44! I hope the answers above have been able to help.

Please do let us know if we can do anything else.

mikehughescq

Activities 7 and 9 are the obvious ones here and 7 night take you all the way to standard rate daily living by itself if the stutter is extreme. However, there’s no threshold for an impairment to be classified as a disability. The threshold is really whether, regardless of diagnosis, you are impaired in some way. I suggest you need an adviser to work through this with you before you decide to make a claim.

wilko

That’s a good answer, reply and in the current COVID situation a telephone assessment will or would be beneficial to a claimant. Now with no restrictions in place assessments will no doubt remain phone, or paper based if enough evidence is submitted.

mikehughescq

And a phone assessment would be pretty definitive in the case of a stutter.