PIP does not assess how disabled you are. It’s about the consequences of your imparment. You can have mild impairment but big consequences and serious impairment with few consequences.
I’m also not sure what test is being talked about here.
Simple hand tests at PIP assessment
fedupScot13
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Hello everyone thank you for allowing me to join this group. My husband had an assessment at home yesterday. Can anyone advise me as to what the purpose of the simple hand tests are. Like everyone who is going this process my husband and I are very stressed at the moment. Why do you need to prove to a stranger how Ill you are.
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Disability Gamechanger - 2019
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You have to have the assessment so they can make up their own mind on how disabled you are. I got 0 points every time until myconsultants backed up my claim, then i got 10 coz whoever did my report lied and should've got more.Just goes to show that these assessments mean nothing.
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@Yadnad are you referring to this?
"In April 2013 Iain Duncan Smith, the sponsor of the Welfare Reform Act, expressed his support for the changes to disability benefits brought about by the new law. He was critical of the older system of disability benefits which awarded an allowance to claimants with no further systematic checks to assess if the claimant's condition had improved or worsened. Iain Duncan Smith stated that, by requiring claimants to undergo periodic assessments, the system could be targeted at those most in need whilst preventing payments being made to people who had recovered from a temporary disability.[9]"
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Hi and a warm welcome @fedupScot13 so sorry to hear you are stress , they ask you to put your hands one way then the other way ,is that what you saying about , did they ask you to blow into a like tube
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no not what had to do today
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@topshoes did you do a simple hands test too?
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@debbiedo49 hands ,fingers , legs, feet ,head , neck , knees,arms and you have to blow into this like tube
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debbiedo49 said:@Yadnad are you referring to this?
"In April 2013 Iain Duncan Smith, the sponsor of the Welfare Reform Act, expressed his support for the changes to disability benefits brought about by the new law. He was critical of the older system of disability benefits which awarded an allowance to claimants with no further systematic checks to assess if the claimant's condition had improved or worsened. Iain Duncan Smith stated that, by requiring claimants to undergo periodic assessments, the system could be targeted at those most in need whilst preventing payments being made to people who had recovered from a temporary disability.[9]"
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