PIP Managing Treatments Q5

Bill wrote: Hello Mods,

Happy and Health New Year to you all, and thanks as always for all you do.

Have read through the Guides to PIP Claiming but still have a question. Does cooking a special diet, as detailed by Specialist Consultants, for Cardiac or Gastro problems count as managing treatments at home do you think?

Thanks once again.

Bill

You may be able to argue this but there are some issues that you will need to consider.

First, unless you are saying that you have problems Preparing and Cooking a Simple meal, you will need to identify the extra work / effort / activity required to do this. In other words what do you have to that is extra to your providing a normal meal.

If you do have problems preparing a normal meal, then you must explain detail what issues result from your not sticking to your special diet.

You need to try and make a clear difference, if you can, between the two activities, DM's are reluctant to duplicate points for what they view as substantially the same issue.

Gordon

mommaduck

If you are saying that your diet requires you to eat gluten free bread on a regular basis and that it must be made at home and cannot be purchased from a shop then you may be able to argue that it forms part of your treatment, however, if this is merely one of a number of gluten free items that you can eat a part of your diet, then I think it unlikely you will score points for this.

Gordon