PIP ASSESSMENT

zangarod

Just a quick question here....awaiting a decision on PIP.  If it was that health did get reasonably better for you to go to work on very light duties and you had just started to get the payments would you lose the backpay/payments at all etc...

Spoonie_Turtle

zangarod said:

Just a quick question here....awaiting a decision on PIP.  If it was that health did get reasonably better for you to go to work on very light duties and you had just started to get the payments would you lose the backpay/payments at all etc...

It's not about working, it's about how your codified affect you in daily living activities and getting around (mobility). 
What matters for PIP are the specific activities assessed, and whether your health significantly changes for a substantial amount of time (expected to be at least a year) to affect what descriptors you score enough to affect the award you qualify for.

When you get the decision it will say what descriptors you scored for each activity.  If you are awarded PIP (either now or after fighting for an appropriate award, if relevant) then it'll be the activities where you scored points that matter.  Working doing light duties may or may not be related to any of them, it depends on what conditions you have and how they affect you.


If you did at some point feel that your health had significantly changed, enough to need to tell them, the new award (or lack of one) would be effective either from the date you tell them, or the date of the new decision - I don't know which - but it wouldn't be from the beginning of your claim and you wouldn't lose backpay related to the time period waiting for the initial decision.