Am I able to claim the mobility side of PIP?

Alice_Holt

Spoonie_Turtle said:

ayupmeduck said:

peteuk said:

Your Pip assessment would have covered mobility, so you have already been assessed for it.  Some would argue that having a drivers license gives you the capacity to plan a route and so will discount the mobility section (It was still happening in 2022).

The threshold for not leaving the house is high, and will need hard evidence to back it up.

The risk as you point out is you will have a full assessment and losing your award,

They could potentially get some points but wouldn't trigger an award. If they can drive they can navigate, have road safety awareness etc. They wouldn't have a full assessment again, if anything a quick phone call and form completed.

*sigh* not this again.

A driving license means you were able to learn and drive with someone accompanying you at some point in the past.  It doesn't mean you can't possibly be too anxious or overwhelmed to do it by yourself ( - or in the case of acquired disability, still able to be aware of road safety, physically able to be upright for an hour, able to concentrate for the length of a lesson, etc.)

I quite like the utopia you live in where they don't do full assessment appointments unless they think they *really* have to, though

       Quite.

        I do feel it's unfortunate that MSE towers doesn't moderate this forum.  It's left to knowledgeable posters (like Spoonie and Mutley), to refute inaccurate & misleading posts.
We then have to hope that MSE Towers doesn't issue an "unfriendly" warning to the knowledgeable poster, and that forumites can spot (and ignore) incorrect information.


   And, as I have posted before in this thread, - the ability to reliably use public transport should also be considered when looking at planning and following a journey.

HillStreetBlues

Alice_Holt said:

I do feel it's unfortunate that MSE towers doesn't moderate this forum.  It's left to knowledgeable posters (like Spoonie and Mutley), to refute inaccurate & misleading posts.
We then have to hope that MSE Towers doesn't issue an "unfriendly" warning to the knowledgeable poster, and that forumites can spot (and ignore) incorrect information.


   And, as I have posted before in this thread, - the ability to reliably use public transport should also be considered when looking at planning and following a journey.

It would be very hard for the towers to moderate this forum (apart from the odd troll)  as most wouldn't know if advice was correct/incorrect.
What is wonderful about this forum is the self-moderation,  if incorrect advice is given, this is always corrected