Help with the 'moving around' section of PIP form

scramwag

All of the PIP activities, including the Moving Around one, must be completed reliably on the majority of days for a claimant not to score points.

It is acceptable for fluctuating conditions to explain how you are affected over periods as long as a year, so this should not be an issue.

You need to have a look at the PIP Claim guide for the detailed explanation of "reliably" as to the "majority of days", if your problem is climate specific, it might help to get some meteorological data to show average temperatures for the area of the country that you live in, hopefully this will show that you are at risk for the majority of the time.

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Gordon

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Gordon

scramwag

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So, starting with the Going Out activity. Your primary problem with this activity is that your problems are physical and this activity is aimed at claimants that have cognitive, mental health or sensory issues, this does not mean that you should make your arguments but I think it unlikely that you will score points.

You do mention problems with your sight and hearing and these may offer a route to scoring points in this activity, but the obstacle will be that most assessors and certainly the Decision Maker will have a simplistic view of this requirement, basically they are looking for claimants who are blind or deaf, so your ability to score points will be very dependant on how you explain your problems.

You also need to be mindful of the wording used in the Descriptors for this activity; I can't see you meeting the requirements for (b) and (c) from what you have posted, (d) and (f) are being treated as issues of navigation and (e) is down to "overwhelming psychological distress", so your responses must deal with these specific issues to have any hope of scoring.

The Moving Around activity is purely concerned with the distance you can walk. From your post, the distances that you can walk, when able, will definitely count against you as there will be an assumption that they take into account any issues of reliability that you might have, you'll have to think about how you can work around this.

So this leaves whether you can walk in the first place on any particular day. Your problem here will undoubtedly be having your reasons for being unable to walk accepted by the assessor and DM. I think your strategy here has to encompass three areas; first you must inform. In other words you need to provide easily digestible information about your conditions and how they would affect someone. Secondly you need to show that you are specifically affected by these conditions and the degree, this will need to be supported with medical evidence, I assume that there can be a wide variation in symptoms. Lastly you need to show on what days you would be impacted, I mentioned it before, but information on temperatures in your area of the country is probably the best way to go, if you can, provide five years of daily data and indicate the periods where your walking would have been limited.

Gordon