Does this mean he can mobilise 50 metres

Bootsalebargains

I am filling my husband ESA form in for the 1st, he is in an nhs electric wheelchair. The question asks can he mobilise in a manual wheelchair, crutches or any other aid.
Does his electric wheelchair mean he can mobilise.

zaksmum

Bootsalebargains wrote: »

I am filling my husband ESA form in for the 1st, he is in an nhs electric wheelchair. The question asks can he mobilise in a manual wheelchair, crutches or any other aid.
Does his electric wheelchair mean he can mobilise.

As far as I understand it, the mobilisation question refers to a manual wheelchair and not a motorised or electric one.

If anyone wants to contradict me though, your input would be most welcome.

luminated

My understanding is the same as Zaksmum but I can't find the right information for you on an official site. I use a manual wheelchair (wife is the pusher) and can get a few yards in a shop with smooth floors but as soon as they are uneven or I try outside on pavement my limit is about two yards before my arms cease to work.

I am waiting for as NHS assessment and hoping to get wheelchair with a power pack so guess I will need to find out more, like you, so hoping somebody may point to a useful link as I am getting worried about my ongoing HRM and Motobility car.

nogginthenog

And dont forget "it's can he mobilise without pain or discomfort"

rogerblack

The question refers _only_ to a manual chair.
If you cannot mobilise, without significant pain or discomfort, in a manual chair, without risking your health, to the level specified several times a day, you pass the 'mobilisation' criteria.

luminated

rogerblack wrote: »

The question refers _only_ to a manual chair.
If you cannot mobilise, without significant pain or discomfort, in a manual chair, without risking your health, to the level specified several times a day, you pass the 'mobilisation' criteria.

Roger sorry to be a pain do you have a link for this?

rogerblack

luminated wrote: »

Roger sorry to be a pain do you have a link for this?

There is no one link, it's a synthesis.
http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/esalaw.htm
To quote parts.

(On aids (including wheelchairs))
If the claimant does not use a particular type of aid or appliance and one has not been prescribed or recommended, then the decision maker or First-tier Tribunal is entitled to take the view that the claimant should be assessed as if using one, but only if one is normally used by people in that situation acting reasonably in all the circumstances and it would be reasonable for the claimant to do the same.”

(Clearly, if you've had advice that you should not use a wheelchair, or cannot physically use one, it would not be reasonable)


(on repeating an activity)

CE/1992/2010 [2011] UKUT 61 (AAC): Employment and support allowance WCA stresses the need for tribunals to consider the ability to repeatedly and reliably undertake such actions even though the word “sometimes” which appeared in the old PCA test is not present in the ESA test.

(On discomfort - from the text of the descriptors)
a)
Cannot either

mobilise more than 50 meters on level ground without stopping in order to avoid significant discomfort or exhaustion; or

Bootsalebargains

Thank you for all the replies, if its only a manual chair that counts he should be ok. He can't use these due to neuropathy in his hands and the xrays showed the nerves in his hands are damaged. This is why they gave him an electric chair

sunnyone

I sent a copy of my wheelchair therapist's report with my ESA50, it explains the reasons why Im supplied with a NHS powerchair, I had a long three part assesment before being allocated funding for my powerchair and the report is proof that I fulfil the mobilising criteria for the support group of ESA.

I did the same with the other discriptors for the support group I fulfil, I get copies of all corrispondance between all my consultants and my GP so I had the the paperwork to hand to go with my ESA50 and I was placed in the support group on the ESA50 alone without a face to face assessment.