During the assessment a health professional will look at the levels of supervision, prompting and assistance you need.
New online guidance could help people making a new claim for Personal Independence Payment understand how the Department for Work and Pensions assesses the amount of support someone needs. This could prove invaluable for those seeking financial support for daily living tasks and could mean the difference between no payment award, the standard rate or the enhanced rate.
The PIP handbook explains that when you are assessed for PIP, a health professional will look at your ability to carry out a range of daily living activities and mobility activities. The health professional will consider whether your health condition or disability limits your ability to carry out the activities and how much help you need with them.
The assessment takes into account where claimants need the support of another person or persons to carry out an activity - including where that person has to carry out the activity for them in its entirety. Latest PIP and ADP News Supervision The PIP handbook states that supervision is “a need for the continuous presence of another person to ensure the claimant’s safety to avoid harm occurring to the claimant or another person”.
If the harm caused would be less severe, then the likelihood of that harm occurring would need to be higher for the activity to be deemed unsafe without supervision. To apply, supervision must be required for the full duration of the activity. DWP explained: “Claimants may be awarded descriptors for needing help even if it is not currently available to them - for example, if they currently manage in a way that is not reliable, but could do so with some help.”
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