PIP change

apples6 wrote: PIP changes
this week Nov 2014. Please would you be able to tell in short form which number pages and Pip numbers have been amended nand changed by the DWP this last week thank you. As I find it hard to go through the 77 pages and trying to work outchanges
many thanks apples 6

The PIP Descriptors have not changed, it is only the guidance issued to assessors by the DWP that has been updated.

The areas affected include'

Q3 - Preparing food
Q7 - Managing toilet needs
Q13 - Going out

Changes to the guidance include

• to ignore problems with carrying things in the kitchen but take account of possible self-harm issues when preparing a meal;
• to ignore commode use in some circumstances;
• that in rare circumstances ‘violent behaviour’ and ‘high suicide risk’ may be relevant to scoring points for needing prompting to undertake journeys;
• that typically claimants ‘will not have left their home for several years’ if they are to qualify as being unable to undertake any journey – ignoring the fact that the legal requirement is that you have had the same level of need for just three months and are likely to have it for at least nine more.

Gordon