Physical tests that Dr makes you do at PIP assessment?

[DNE92]

Sorry if I've forgotten where the really helpful comments have gone but would people mind telling me some more? My PIP form is in and I'm waiting for my assessment. What actually does the Dr make you do during the assessment?

Intrigued (and forewarned is forearmed) Lou

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The citizens advice bureau gives advice online on how PIP is scored.

There are two sections, one for daily living activities and one for mobility.

Each question in each section gets points depending on what you can and can't do.

You need to score 8 points to get the standard rate of allowance and 12 for the enhanced rate.

If you google 'PIP points' there is a PDF that gives you all the categories and points attached.

On the day of your assessment For some you will be asked things like what help do you need to cook a meal and for others you will actually be given tasks to do like carry out physical tasks and timed and assessed on how you do.

Hope this helps 😊

[malalatete]

Hi there Lou

I am probably not the best as on the day of my assessmemt I was hardly mobile, so I know that there are various tests on the legs whilst standing the I wasn't asked to do as my assessor was worried I would fall.

But I remember being asked to hold my arms out in front, behind, above my head. I pointed out that on some days I would only be able to do such movements once or twice without being in excruciating pain from the lactic acid - that's an ME symptom which comes and goes. I think you can be asked to go down to a squatting position and back up, as I say my last assessment I wasn't asked.

So there are some physicsl tests but they won't make you do them 8f you obviously can't and it is important to say something if any action they make you do is domething you would struggle to do 'reliably, repeatedly and safely' - that is a catch phrase they have to assess against for fluctuating conditions.

Hope that helps.

[DNE92 Moderator FND Hope UK in reply to malalatete]

Thanks. It's hard getting over to people the fluctuating nature of things. I can be seen walking in the morning and then paralysed later in the day when my dog jumped up to see me. My hands are so jerky this morning that typing is taking an age. Thanks again.

Lou