Published on 12, July, 2020
I thought those of you who claim or have attempted to claim PIP might want to know that the government has lost a court appeal about PIP. It doesn't mean you will get it if you didn't or that you will get more if you already get some PIP but it does mean a full review with more weighting to mental health issues.
www.bbc.co.uk/.../uk-42862904
The assessors base pip mainly on purely on pyhsical disability and the extreme scales of those types of problems with no regard to mental health at all. This is a good thing they are being held accountable. Pip is for support needs and plenty of people with mental health conditions use things like pip and ESA to pay for support workers or assisted living housing as no help is free in this country anymore.
Yes, exactly. I'm lucky enough to have a specialist autism service provider very accessible to me. From my contact with them, they seem very well set up and have good people, but anything beyond simple signposting advice requires payment for the services. Some of this could possibly come from the local authority, but they have no dedicated autism staff, so I'm at the mercy of whether the learning difficulties section will help me; my diagnosis specifically says "without intellectual impairment". Even if I got that funding, I would still have to pay a service user contribution, which I cannot possibly afford from my ESA. From what I see, my situation isn't unusual for autistic adults, so PIP is going to be essential for a significant number of people who might benefit from those services, and to the future of the organisation itself.