Dwp pip

[Princess61]

Good day everyone x I keep hearing in the news about some conditions for pip entitlement been stopped. Do you think fibromyalgia is on the list, classed as all over chronic pain? I've got osteoarthritis to and I've read that might be to. I wonder what will happen if you currently get pip for these conditions if it will be taken off you at reviews. Xx

[desquinn Partner Volunteer FMAUK Trustee]

Conditions are not what are assessed. It is peoples ability to meet the "descriptors" i.e. their ability to carry out certain tasks. So your inability to brush your hair or wash your self due to crippling hand and body pain would apply to arthritis as well as fibromyalgia.

[Dinkie]

As Des says it’s not the condition you have it’s the ability or not to function day to day and how that impacts on your life.

There is much scare mongering going on in the press at the moment. There’s no point worrying about something that may not happen and if the goalposts do move it won’t be an overnight implementation.