Blow hot & cold re: applying for PIP

Hi all

Forgive my ignorance regarding PIP as I’ve been, IB to ESA C SG.

I blow hot and cold because I’ve only recently become aware that it’s quite probable that I’d qualify for PIP. Like so many though, it’s having the wherewithal to go through it twice. However, I think that with PIP being a passport benefit, I’m missing out on so much.

Is it possible to get through and be awarded PIP on paper alone, like I did with my ESA?

Is there anything about PIP that would jeopardise my ESA?

Whilst the law classes me as disabled, I’m unable to take advantage of anything regarded as “disabled”, because I’m not in receipt of PIP - say a disabled persons railcard, (for instance)!

Kind regards

P

Hi Gordon and thank you

Can I look to find clarity, from my perspective, in your last paragraph please?

I’m on ESA Contribution based (my computer won’t allow me to put a c in brackets, it does something weird when I try) and do not and will not qualify for IR. Therefore, my understanding from your last paragraph is that, because for me there’s no IR qualification now or in future, when it comes to “pass porting”, I’d not qualify for most, even if I successfully claimed PIP.

Hope that makes sense to you Gordon?!

PIP, I assume, when it comes to receiving a small company pension in the not too distant future, would be added to ESA, when it comes to the amount of pension you can receive without it affecting your ESA?

So, it may well pay to let sleeping dogs lie in my case. (That’s me thinking out loud Gordon and not a question I would put to you).

Many thanks for your time and patience. Always a pain weighing up the pros and cons.

Kind regards

P