PIP: Yes. No. Sometimes?

harveybobbles

Just looking over a PIP form for the first time..

The answers are generally YES/NO/SOMETIMES - at what point during a task does SOMETIMES become YES?

ie

Do you need help from another person to eat or drink?

YES/NO/SOMETIMES

If, one day per week you need help is this classed as "yes" because you DO need help or would it be "sometimes"?

tomtontom

That would clearly be sometimes. Yes would apply if you always need help.

rogerblack

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/377/regulation/7

In short - if you were tested if a specific descriptor applies to you every day - if on over 50% of days you can't do a thing, you can't do it.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/377/regulation/4

Expands on this.
To be able to complete an activity, you need to be able to complete it in a manner it won't harm you or others, as often as it might reasonably be required to be completed, in no more than twice the period which an able bodied person might complete it.

In principle, this is a really really really strong regulation.

For example - if you take twice as long as an able bodied person would to cook a meal, eat, wash and bathe, dress, communicate information, walk 20m, then each of these would separately qualify you for full points of each of these descriptors.

This is _even_if_ you can - for example - walk >200m in three times the time it would take an able bodied person. If you can't stand and move 20m unaided in twice the time it'd take an able bodied person to do it - you qualify for 12 points.
Indeed, if it takes you three times as long as it does for a fit person to stand up, that would alone qualify you.


However - whatever the regulations actually say - this is unlikely to be how they are initially applied.