20 metres for PIP Enhanced Mobility.

[firebird]

This is seriously bad news if not unexpected and will adversely impact the personal independence the PIP is supposed to be for. There is a considerable difference in the rate of benefit between standard and enhanced mobility components.

The PIP rates presently are:

Daily living component Weekly rate
Enhanced rate £79.15 (equal in value to highest rate of DLA Care Component)
Standard rate £53.00 (equal in value to middle rate of DLA Care Component)

Mobility component Weekly rate
Enhanced rate £55.25 (equal in value to higher rate of DLA mobility component)
Standard rate £21.00 (equal in value to lower rate of DLA mobility component)
These rates will change again in April 2014.

This document below was posted here early in the year and outlines cases which show how you would or would not qualify for the mobility components. At the moment Juliet fits me best but no doubt ATOS etc would deem otherwise. It is going to be difficult to persuade DM to choose enhanced over standard, I think very, very careful wording will be needed on the application forms.

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...nsultation.rtf

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[Kodiak]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

At Present there is no One who does this.

We can only for better in the future.

[sea queen]

Is this taking on the same as ESA Descriptors - meaning can walk 20 Mitres, reliably, safely, and in a reasonable time?

[andypandy]

Hi everyone

I'm not surprised they've not changed their minds. Is it walking of 20 metres or mobilising 20 metres ?

[andypandy]

I've found the answer it is for walking in case anyone else wanted to know

The Government’s response to the consultation on the PIP assessment Moving around activity

3.9 Some respondents pointed out that for Employment and Support Allowance, the Work Capability Assessment descriptors award 15 points (maximum award) on the basis of not being able to ‘mobilise’4 50 metres. However the WCA criteria cannot be directly compared with PIP as they refer to ‘mobilising’ which includes the use of wheelchairs.

[sea queen]

Which is daft then, as, if a person can't walk 20M, safely or reliably - then they can't walk 20M !!!
Or are they expected to keep getting up off the floor and walking a bit further - or calling out the Paras to get them on their feet!!

[phaedra]

Found this on another site, says exactly what we already knew about the goverment/DWP and their attitude to the disabled,

"Unfortunately, despite Mike Penning – the new Minister of State for Disabled People – assuring us in the foreword that the DWP “have listened carefully to the feedback received from disabled people and their organisations” the bulk of the response sets out why the DWP are going to ignore the feedback that has been given to them.

The most telling part is paragraphs 3.2 and 3.3 which read:

“Out of 1142 respondents, 914 indicated a clear preference for changing the Moving around criteria. [From 20m to something else.] [...] Five individual respondents were supportive of retaining the current criteria.“

Just in case that isn’t clear, 914 people told the DWP that the twenty metre threshold for high rate support with moving around was no good, while just 5 people told them to keep it at twenty metres."

[mikeydt1]

if everyone is required to have a face to face assessment which is a requirement of PIP and they have to attend gestapo centres then this will allow the government to get around paying top rates and getting around the 20m ruling, if you can make it to a centre then it will show you have walked 20m! or pushed yourself 20m!

got a nasty feeling lots will get very little or nothing at all.

they did say when they brought out PIP it was designed to save as much money as possible, est 1 million people will loose out, guess the above is how they will do it.

[seriouslyfedup]

Is this taking on the same as ESA Descriptors - meaning can walk 20 Mitres, reliably, safely, and in a reasonable time?

Certainly looks like it from the 3 different examples they gave. If you can repeat after a short rest, it doesn't count. What length of time defines a short rest I've no idea.

[andypandy]

if everyone is required to have a face to face assessment which is a requirement of PIP and they have to attend gestapo centres then this will allow the government to get around paying top rates and getting around the 20m ruling, if you can make it to a centre then it will show you have walked 20m! or pushed yourself 20m!

got a nasty feeling lots will get very little or nothing at all.

they did say when they brought out PIP it was designed to save as much money as possible, est 1 million people will loose out, guess the above is how they will do it.

Hi Mickey

Hope you're as well as poss

If you look at paragraph 3.9'it is for walking and not mobilising ie propelling yourself.

It is walking with aids ie stick or glasses - yes glasses !!!