Hearing Aid and PIP

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  • KG100
    KG100 Online Community Member Posts: 276 Empowering
    When I applied for my disabled bus pass I was told that only NHS hearing aids count, and not privately bought ones.
    I would think that perhaps this is the same for claiming PIP and getting 2 points.
    I sent PIP my hearing aid letters from my hospital consultant. 

  • KG100
    KG100 Online Community Member Posts: 276 Empowering
    Buying hearing aids now is so easy and cheap, especially with Ebay and things, but it's having proof that you need them that counts for the 2 points. 
  • ATHOMPSON13
    ATHOMPSON13 Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    Hi my hearing aids are NHS as my hearing is borderline for cochlear implants. I put together a letter describing how it effects me daily. Just wondered if anyone gets PIP for hearing loss, that was all. 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    Possibly not for hearing loss itself but how it affects your functional ability then you may yes. People are affected differently by these conditions are you can't compare 2 people.  PIP isn't about a diagnosis. Have you read the link i posted above?
  • ATHOMPSON13
    ATHOMPSON13 Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    Yes, I have already this before thank you. 
  • ATHOMPSON13
    ATHOMPSON13 Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    That sounds exactly like me. I can't follow a conversation without liip reading, I can't hear from behind  so crossing the road can be tricky. I ignore people and have to do the whole I'm hearing impaired with everyone I meet. I can't tell what the satnav says so have to watch the arrows, so get lost everyday, as I drive 1800 miles a month for my job. I live in Sheffield but my employer is in Birmingham, I can't sleep in a hotel room because I don't hear a fire alarm. I can't use a telephone without the Rodger Pen system. The list goes on...... Thank you , this was very helpful. I get by, but It's not easy and costly when you can't even hear the driver on a bus or ask for directions in a train station, go swimming without a partner or even hear the cashier in the supermarket. 
  • ATHOMPSON13
    ATHOMPSON13 Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    I have to use the government Access to Work scheme who provided me with the Rodger Pen, Rodger Pen Clip in Mic and deaf awareness training for the team. Maybe I should take along my assessment paperwork. Thank you
  • twonker
    twonker Posts: 617 Empowering
    Me too!!!
    Having been deaf for a number of years it becomes second nature to finish off something that you have part heard using lip reading.
    I never thought of telling the assessor any of that and to be totally frank never thought how those descriptors could be used for being unable to hear. 
    You have identified everything that a deaf person has problems with even appearing to be ignorant towards people who I dismiss when they are trying to talk to me. Well done it ticks all of the boxes for me.

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