Guide to Submitting a Claim for PIP
Posted: Tue 16 Apr 2013 8:12 am
(PIP is "Personal Independence Payments" which replaced DLA or "Disability Living Allowance" from April)
Benefits and Work have produced excellent resources to help with completing an application for PIP. It goes through why you would be entitled and what the criteria are for proving your entitlement. http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/person ... ayment-pip
This is a subject we'd like to start getting more directly involved in -- the "systems" for registering as being partially sighted, claiming benefits such as PIP (and ESA "Employment Support Allowance, another disability benefit) and accessing services for people with low vision don't always reflect the needs of people with Keratoconus.
This is because they are often geared to dealing with "steady state" conditions. If you've lost a limb, you've lost a limb. It's gone and it's not going to grow back. The "systems" can produce the right outcome for that sort of disability. But for us, sometimes we can see pretty well, sometimes we can't see our hand in front of our face.
What's a bit galling is, the same systems seem to be able to offer the correct sorts of outcomes for other disabled people with variable conditions -- Multiple Sclerosis is a good example.
Please add any thoughts you may have on this subject to this thread.
Benefits and Work have produced excellent resources to help with completing an application for PIP. It goes through why you would be entitled and what the criteria are for proving your entitlement. http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/person ... ayment-pip
This is a subject we'd like to start getting more directly involved in -- the "systems" for registering as being partially sighted, claiming benefits such as PIP (and ESA "Employment Support Allowance, another disability benefit) and accessing services for people with low vision don't always reflect the needs of people with Keratoconus.
This is because they are often geared to dealing with "steady state" conditions. If you've lost a limb, you've lost a limb. It's gone and it's not going to grow back. The "systems" can produce the right outcome for that sort of disability. But for us, sometimes we can see pretty well, sometimes we can't see our hand in front of our face.
What's a bit galling is, the same systems seem to be able to offer the correct sorts of outcomes for other disabled people with variable conditions -- Multiple Sclerosis is a good example.
Please add any thoughts you may have on this subject to this thread.