I have fibromyalgia, newly diagnosed but am having many high pain days where I cannot go to work

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Would I be able to apply for PIP?

I can do most things but sometimes my pain is so bad I'm out of work for 3-5days. I find it difficult to cut hard vegetables, pick up the full kettle, bend down and pick stuff up...sometimes pains so bad I cannot get comfy standing up, laying down ot or sitting. I'm on medication but not really working yet. The pain wears me down so much itself that I dont want to do anything... or it's so bad my husband can't hug me. Loads of times I've smashed cups and plates because i somehow lost grip.... I'm struggling with my life right now.

I tried doing a practice assessment online but said I wouldn't get pip ?

My husband earns more than me but I need my own money to pay for the other house Bill's.

Any advice appreciated

poppy12345

PIP isn't about not being able to work, or about a diagnosis. It's how those conditions affect your ability to carry out daily activity based on the PIP descriptor. Have a look at this link. It's long but it will give you more understanding of the descriptors and what they mean. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-assessment-guide-for-assessment-providers/pip-assessment-guide-part-2-the-assessment-criteria

Evidence will be needed to support your claim because they rarely contact anyone for this. A successful claim could take many months, especially now because of Covid19 and backlogs will be even bigger than usual.

Due to the lockdown lots of people are unable to go to work or are working from home, are you still working?

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poppy12345 said:

PIP isn't about not being able to work, or about a diagnosis. It's how those conditions affect your ability to carry out daily activity based on the PIP descriptor. Have a look at this link. It's long but it will give you more understanding of the descriptors and what they mean. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-assessment-guide-for-assessment-providers/pip-assessment-guide-part-2-the-assessment-criteria

Evidence will be needed to support your claim because they rarely contact anyone for this. A successful claim could take many months, especially now because of Covid19 and backlogs will be even bigger than usual.

Due to the lockdown lots of people are unable to go to work or are working from home, are you still working?

Thank you for your response, I will read through the link in a moment.
Just to clarify ;
what would I need for evidence?
Should I ring to start the application now and track / get evidence after until the time for my assessment 

I usually travel by bus to my workplace during coronavirus. I don't have an option to work from home like everyone else because my husband don't like the fact I would have had to plug in a lead from a works desktop into our wifi, plus I have no room for another desktop.  

KatrinaWaves

lifeatthekings said:

poppy12345 said:

PIP isn't about not being able to work, or about a diagnosis. It's how those conditions affect your ability to carry out daily activity based on the PIP descriptor. Have a look at this link. It's long but it will give you more understanding of the descriptors and what they mean. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-assessment-guide-for-assessment-providers/pip-assessment-guide-part-2-the-assessment-criteria

Evidence will be needed to support your claim because they rarely contact anyone for this. A successful claim could take many months, especially now because of Covid19 and backlogs will be even bigger than usual.

Due to the lockdown lots of people are unable to go to work or are working from home, are you still working?

Thank you for your response, I will read through the link in a moment.
Just to clarify ;
what would I need for evidence?
Should I ring to start the application now and track / get evidence after until the time for my assessment 

I usually travel by bus to my workplace during coronavirus. I don't have an option to work from home like everyone else because my husband don't like the fact I would have had to plug in a lead from a works desktop into our wifi, plus I have no room for another desktop.  

Yes god forbid something happens to the WiFi... 

[Deleted User]

lifeatthekings said:

Thank you for your response, I will read through the link in a moment.
Just to clarify ;
what would I need for evidence?
Should I ring to start the application now and track / get evidence after until the time for my assessment 

I usually travel by bus to my workplace during coronavirus. I don't have an option to work from home like everyone else because my husband don't like the fact I would have had to plug in a lead from a works desktop into our wifi, plus I have no room for another desktop.  

 It sounds like you do have the option to work from home. Your husband is probably being unreasonable, if it's the bill he is worried about you can claim a small rebate for this and you could ask your employer to chip in. 

[Deleted User]

KatrinaWaves said:

lifeatthekings said:

poppy12345 said:

PIP isn't about not being able to work, or about a diagnosis. It's how those conditions affect your ability to carry out daily activity based on the PIP descriptor. Have a look at this link. It's long but it will give you more understanding of the descriptors and what they mean. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-assessment-guide-for-assessment-providers/pip-assessment-guide-part-2-the-assessment-criteria

Evidence will be needed to support your claim because they rarely contact anyone for this. A successful claim could take many months, especially now because of Covid19 and backlogs will be even bigger than usual.

Due to the lockdown lots of people are unable to go to work or are working from home, are you still working?

Thank you for your response, I will read through the link in a moment.
Just to clarify ;
what would I need for evidence?
Should I ring to start the application now and track / get evidence after until the time for my assessment 

I usually travel by bus to my workplace during coronavirus. I don't have an option to work from home like everyone else because my husband don't like the fact I would have had to plug in a lead from a works desktop into our wifi, plus I have no room for another desktop.  

Yes god forbid something happens to the WiFi... 

I know I'm mad too. He's a software developer and knows a lot about the computers. Because I couldn't tell him why the blue wire was heeded,  he felt uneasy that it may be used to track us in some way.  

[Deleted User]

_shel said:

lifeatthekings said:

Thank you for your response, I will read through the link in a moment.
Just to clarify ;
what would I need for evidence?
Should I ring to start the application now and track / get evidence after until the time for my assessment 

I usually travel by bus to my workplace during coronavirus. I don't have an option to work from home like everyone else because my husband don't like the fact I would have had to plug in a lead from a works desktop into our wifi, plus I have no room for another desktop.  

 It sounds like you do have the option to work from home. Your husband is probably being unreasonable, if it's the bill he is worried about you can claim a small rebate for this and you could ask your employer to chip in. 

Nah he isn't worried about Bill's. He thinks the company is going to track us. Anyway got no room for it. 

KatrinaWaves

lifeatthekings said:

_shel said:

lifeatthekings said:

Thank you for your response, I will read through the link in a moment.
Just to clarify ;
what would I need for evidence?
Should I ring to start the application now and track / get evidence after until the time for my assessment 

I usually travel by bus to my workplace during coronavirus. I don't have an option to work from home like everyone else because my husband don't like the fact I would have had to plug in a lead from a works desktop into our wifi, plus I have no room for another desktop.  

 It sounds like you do have the option to work from home. Your husband is probably being unreasonable, if it's the bill he is worried about you can claim a small rebate for this and you could ask your employer to chip in. 

Nah he isn't worried about Bill's. He thinks the company is going to track us. Anyway got no room for it. 

No dining room table? Nowhere to make a makeshift work station?

My partner owns his own software development and server hosting business. He would not throw up obstacles like this. He would find ways to workaround them if he could not work out what ‘the blue wire’was. We already have guest WiFi and home WiFi so there would be no tracking...

Honestly his story sounds like utter rubbish. Not something a software developer would say or do, not with a reasonable ‘I’m a
software developer’ excuse. You need to look after your own safety, not be concerned about silly things like internet tracking which are extremely easily solved...

[Deleted User]

 So they want to send home a huge desktop and not a laptop? 

 Doubt anyone with extensive knowledge of computers would believe a blue wire was there to track you. I call bull 

[Deleted User]

KatrinaWaves said:

lifeatthekings said:

_shel said:

lifeatthekings said:

Thank you for your response, I will read through the link in a moment.
Just to clarify ;
what would I need for evidence?
Should I ring to start the application now and track / get evidence after until the time for my assessment 

I usually travel by bus to my workplace during coronavirus. I don't have an option to work from home like everyone else because my husband don't like the fact I would have had to plug in a lead from a works desktop into our wifi, plus I have no room for another desktop.  

 It sounds like you do have the option to work from home. Your husband is probably being unreasonable, if it's the bill he is worried about you can claim a small rebate for this and you could ask your employer to chip in. 

Nah he isn't worried about Bill's. He thinks the company is going to track us. Anyway got no room for it. 

No dining room table? Nowhere to make a makeshift work station?

My partner owns his own software development and server hosting business. He would not throw up obstacles like this. He would find ways to workaround them if he could not work out what ‘the blue wire’was. We already have guest WiFi and home WiFi so there would be no tracking...

Honestly his story sounds like utter rubbish. Not something a software developer would say or do, not with a reasonable ‘I’m a
software developer’ excuse. You need to look after your own safety, not be concerned about silly things like internet tracking which are extremely easily solved...

No dining room as we rent a very small one bed house and upstairs we already have our own desktop PCs so no room to put my own one in storage to even use desktop computer from work. It needs to be plugged in to the wifi but where I could put it won't reach. I've asked work if I needed the lead they said yes. I only signed up to work at home as I was told it would be a laptop 

poppy12345

lifeatthekings said:

poppy12345 said:

PIP isn't about not being able to work, or about a diagnosis. It's how those conditions affect your ability to carry out daily activity based on the PIP descriptor. Have a look at this link. It's long but it will give you more understanding of the descriptors and what they mean. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-assessment-guide-for-assessment-providers/pip-assessment-guide-part-2-the-assessment-criteria

Evidence will be needed to support your claim because they rarely contact anyone for this. A successful claim could take many months, especially now because of Covid19 and backlogs will be even bigger than usual.

Due to the lockdown lots of people are unable to go to work or are working from home, are you still working?

what would I need for evidence?

To prove how your conditions affect your ability to carry out daily activity based on the PIP descriptors.

You can apply anytime, providing you've had the condition for at least 3 months and expect it to last at least a further 9 months. I would expect both of those criteria to apply, i have fibro myself (amongst other things) and i claim PIP.

Face to face assessments have been suspended by DWP for 3 months, at least. If you apply now you will have 3 months in which to return the form. Like i said, backlogs will be huge so don't expect it to be a quick claim.