PIP Review Form Help

matt11012
matt11012 Online Community Member Posts: 7 Listener
in PIP, DLA, ADP and AA
Hello evryone

I hope you are all well at this time of year.

I have been sent a PIP review form today in the post, I had a text message over two weeks ago to tell me my PIP review had started so knew it was on its way.

One thing I wanted to ask if anyone can help, when I first claimed PIP I was living at home so to some extent I got help with certain tasks and would have put this down on my original PIP form but since then to cut a long story short I had to get out of where I was living due to certain issues and have been living on my own since August of last year and certain help I was getting I no longer have as I now live alone.

Although getting out of where I was was the right thing to do for my own sanity I have found living alone very lonely and things I would have been prompted to do like eat or get dressed or to try an get me out have decreased significantly or basically don't happen anymore.

How do I answer those questions where it asks for what help you get or what help you get from another person if I do not get any help at all?  

I mean I know there are people I could call on for help but im to ashamed and embarrassed to ask for any help so I just do what I can to survive really but these questions have just got me worried as to why they might think I do not have any help and dont know how to answer them.

Thank you for your time in reading this and for any help

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  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    PIP is about the help you need, regardless of whether you receive that help or not. Many people live alone and claim PIP successfully. 

    You need to treat the form as a new claim and tell them exactly how your conditions affect you. Include a couple of real world incidents of exactly what happened the last time you attempted each descriptor that applies to you. Adding detailed information such as where you were, what exactly happened, did anyone see it and what the consequences were.

    You can ring PIP to ask for extra time to return the form and they will give you 2 extra weeks. 

    Make sure you keep copies for yourself when returning the forms and any extra evidence you maybe sending. 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,155 Championing
    edited December 2023
    Hi @matt11012 - with PIP you describe the help you need even if you don't get that help. Also remember PIP is about how you are the majority of days, but you can describe all of your days if your condition fluctuates. So, for example you might say I need prompting to eat about x days a week, & explain why.
    You should treat your review by giving the sort of detail needed for an initial claim. Even if a descriptor has not changed, don't just put 'no change' without saying what hasn't changed & going into detail.

    Try & give a couple of recent, detailed examples as to the difficulty you face for each applicable descriptor, i.e. when did it happen, where, what happened, did anyone see this, & were there any consequences to attempting/doing an activity?

    Say if you can do each applicable activity 'reliably,' i.e. safely, to an acceptable standard, repeat as often as one would reasonably expect, or if it takes you much longer than someone without a disability

    There's not much space on the form so just add extra pages at the end (saying which question it's a continuation from), & put your name & National Insurance number on each of these pages.

    You can also ring the PIP enquiry line on 0800 121 4433 to ask for extra time to complete the form, & you will be given another 2 weeks without question. Keep a copy of everything 'just in case,' & get a free Certificate of Posting from your Post Office when sending the form off.

  • matt11012
    matt11012 Online Community Member Posts: 7 Listener
    Thank you both so much for your replies

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