Can I request an assessment for PIP for my son?

Troutwrestler

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

So what about people who can physically walk but who cannot use public transport or go outside unaccompanied?

My niece had uncontrolled epilepsy and would fit several times a day. It was so bad that her mother had to sleep in her bedroom and she could not go anywhere unaccompanied. She certainly could not uses public buses, whether accompanied or not, as a fit on a crowded confined space would have been too dangerous.

The blue badge and the college taxi and her support worker, meant that she could continue with her education and live as normal a life as possible.

Sounds much like my condition, someone has to be with my pretty much 24/7 as I fit without warning several times a day.
I was turned down for a blue badge as I can physically walk. I have a bus pass (which I can't use..it's not worth the risk)

elmer

Yes LazyDAisy, they have decided that it is now only for mobility, and not for any other issues,
so ADHD children, people with dementia, and other problems, who are mobile but need assistance to walk, no longer qualify if they can walk further than 50 metres.

We have had to turn down people who have had badges for years, its really not a pleasant job at the minute.

elmer

zzzLazyDaisy

elmer wrote: »

Yes LazyDAisy, they have decided that it is now only for mobility, and not for any other issues,

elmer

Thanks Elmer, I was not aware of that. I want to cry - so many people needing so much help to get such a small amount of support to make their lives just that bit more manageable. I'm not just talking about the blue badge of course, but it just seems like the thin end of the wedge

nannytone_2

i am registered blind with no physical issues and my BB was renewed 2 weeks ago

Lozz

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Thanks Elmer, I was not aware of that. I want to cry - so many people needing so much help to get such a small amount of support to make their lives just that bit more manageable. I'm not just talking about the blue badge of course, but it just seems like the thin end of the wedge

Thanks both, that was my original query really, up until now my son has had interviews with the BB department every 3 years and has been granted one every time. Now the rules have tightened up he would only qualify under the high rate mobility/enhanced PIP mobility in our new area, which he apparently doesn't qualify for under DLA but does (or should do) under PIP.

Plus transport want to give him a bus pass for college which the same as Troutwrestler, he won't be able to use. He's never been further than our back garden on his own! As I said before, there is a vast difference between being unable to walk 50 meters to needing supervision in unfamiliar places, which DLA don't acknowledge and PIP seemed to.

Lozz x

zzzLazyDaisy

Whatever the new rules on blue badges, surely the issue of educational transport is a separate issue under the equality act there is a right to access to education, if he is unable to use public transport unaccompanied, then the taxi should still be provided. Can the SENCO at the college help with this?

Troutwrestler

nannytone wrote: »

i am registered blind with no physical issues and my BB was renewed 2 weeks ago

Lucky you.

Alot of people are now finding the opposite

mazza111

nannytone wrote: »

i am registered blind with no physical issues and my BB was renewed 2 weeks ago

Think it's also dependent on local area rules. The lass has no problems as she gets HRM, but I think a lot of councils are cutting back on the assistance ones

[Deleted User]

Lozz wrote: »

Thank you for the advice LazyDaisy, I agree it is probably sensible to wait and see how the first tranche of claims go, although from what I understand they are assessing the low care claimants first, which is why my son isn't due to be assessed before 2015.

For the record it isn't for the gamble of a few extra quid (although unless we can change the council's mind about college transport his taxi fares are going to be £75 per week from September), it's more to do with the blue badge issue, he's had one for 14 years now and isn't coping at all well here without one.

Lozz x

transfers from dla to pip wont start until autumn 2015 and no one knows yet who will be transfered first or in what order,its likely it will be a "lucky dip"

Cpt.Scarlet

woodbine wrote: »

transfers from dla to pip wont start until autumn 2015 and no one knows yet who will be transfered first or in what order,its likely it will be a "lucky dip"

Sorry but DLA transfers to PIP start in October for anyone with a fixed term award ending on 24/2/14 or afterwards and anybody with a Change of Circumstances likely to result in a change of award. It is only DLA claimants with an indefinite award (and no CoC before) who will not be transferred until 2015.