planning and following a journey
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Hello @Maggie9945 Pleased to meet you Welcome.
Thank you for sharing. I am afraid I do not know what the answer is. Some one from our community or the team might know.
Have you looked at our posts and threads on Talk about Specific conditions. Also the posts and threads on Benefits and PIP.
For information and support.
Hope that helps.
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The DWP seem to have targeted everybody on this descriptor, by reducing the points they are able to get more people off enhanced mobility
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Hi @Maggie9945
There is some information here from the CAB about the planning and following a journey question.
The Turn2Us website says this:Planning and following journeys is a mobility activity. Add the points you score for this activity with the points you score for the other mobility activity to find out if you may be entitled to the mobility component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
When you are looking at how many points you score for planning and following a journey, think about what help you need most of the time to do it:
- Safely
- Well enough
- Often enough
- Fast enough
You score the points for the sentence that is true for most or over half of the time. If more than one sentence is true, you normally only get points for the sentence that is true for the most time. You can only score one set of points for planning and following a journey, do not add them together.
No points
You can plan how to get somewhere, and find your way there, without any help.
Four points
Leaving your house makes you so distressed that you can’t do anything, unless someone encourages you.
Examples of so distressed that you can’t do anything:
- You have an anxiety or panic attack
- You have a breakdown or meltdown
Eight points
You can’t plan how to get somewhere.
Ten points
You can’t leave the house because it makes you so distressed that you can’t do anything.
You can’t find your way to a new place without someone else, a guide dog or a special aid to help you.
Examples of special aids:
- NOT SatNav unless it is especially for disabled people
- Cane or white stick
- Braille map
12 points
You can’t find your way to a place you know without someone else, a guide dog or a special aid to help you.
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