room on the 3rd floor

Mat

Forgive me, it is not entirely clear from your post whether your father is a double amputee (no legs below the thigh) or a single amputee (one biological leg and one amputated at the thigh)?

This is important, the legal test for PIP requires the claimant to place one biological foot on the ground and then to walk, so a double amputee will automatically qualify for the PIP Enhanced Mobility rate as they will score 12 points.

Someone with one full biological leg will be tested against the PIP Moving Around Descriptor and so his ability to use the stairs may be a factor, I assume that we are not talking about his having climbed the stairs once and he has not left the flat since.

The test does not consider the claimants ability to climb stairs only the distance that he can walk, but there will be assumptions made if regularly uses the stairs, however, any activity that he performs, not just this "walking", must be done reliably, so it must be done;

• Safely – in a fashion that is unlikely to cause harm to themselves or to another person.
• To a necessary and appropriate standard – given the nature of the activity.
• Repeatedly – as often as is reasonably required.
• In a timely manner – in a reasonable time period.

So as an example, he is in severe discomfort when climbing the stairs, or he goes up the stairs one at a time with a rest in between, or he can only use the stairs once a day, or he takes more than twice the time that a healthy person would take to climb the stairs, then his climbing the stairs should be excluded.

What you need to do is to ensure that this is clear to the PIP assessor when your father sees them.

Gordon

Mat wrote: Gordon

Thank You for reply,
Father is single amputee. Yes he did left flat since we have moved in but this is very ironic after climbing all this stairs down I am waiting with wheelchair.

His taking really long time to walk up and down the stairs. And in fact as result of this he don't want to go out.

PIP considers things that the claimant cannot do, rather than those that they choose not to do, so if your father reluctance to go out is because of the pain that walking down the stairs causes (as an example), then it is the pain that you would need to highlight to the assessor.

Gordon