Is sleep Apnoea a disability?
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Is sleep Apnoea a disability? Can it qualify for a disability Benefit? If the person who has it has to use a machine because it's so bad.
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Hi and welcome to the community, I dont have an answer but the disability benefits are all about how your condition affects your daily living
Things like, eating, preparing food, washing, bathing, toileting , finances , communication etc
I dont know if they take sleep time into account maybe others have an answer for you
Have a look through the PIP descriptors and see if you think you would score any points
I presume ity is PIP you were referring to -
Hi @RSISolutions, how are you today?
Qualification for disability related benefits isn't so much about a diagnosis, it's more about how your condition impacts your daily living and mobility.
If it's Employment and Support Allowance you're asking about, you can find information about qualifying for that benefit here, if it's Personal Independence Payment you're wondering about, you can find information about that here.
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HI,Using a machine at night will not score any points in any of the PIP descriptors if the person using it doesn't need any assistance.Whether the person will score any points for any of the descriptors will totally depend on how their conditions affect them against the PIP descriptors.I would appreciate it if members wouldn't tag me please. I have all notifcations turned off and wouldn't want a member thinking i'm being rude by not replying.If i see a question that i know the answer to i will try my best to help.
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If the person cannot sleep well and ends up being lethargic and has irregualar sleeping pattern then surley this affects their ability to do day to day tasks.
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It depends on whether they are affected against the PIP descriptors. No one can tell you that on an internet forum.
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This person stopped working a few months ago. Before that the person held a professional well paid job paying lots of NI contributions. This person has less than 6,000 pounds in savings.
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During the day this person who has sleep Apnoea
- feels very tired
- finds it hard to concentrate
- has mood swings
- has a headache when they wake up.
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It's starting to get very confusing because you have 2 different threads with the same questions..
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Can people with disabilities claim Universal Credit?
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Can you please keep to the one thread rather than going back and for between the 2 because it's very difficult to keep up with the questions between 2 threads. Other thread here. https://community.scope.org.uk/discussion/73927/is-sleep-apnoea-a-disability#latest
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Morning all.
Just to let you know I have closed this discussion because it is a duplicate thread. I would merge it with the other but to avoid confusion I will just close this one.
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