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How disability and health-related benefits are actually decided — the tests, the points, the dates and the parts of the rules that are most often misread.
Personal Independence Payment is not means-tested and is tax-free. Working or holding savings does not by itself disqualify an otherwise eligible person — the assessment looks at daily living and mobility instead.
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Two benefits, two different questions. One looks at daily living and mobility against a points scale; the other asks whether somebody needs help or supervision, and never scores mobility at all.
8 min read
Ten daily living activities, two mobility activities, and a scoring table that never mentions a condition by name. Eight points for the standard rate, twelve for the enhanced one.
10 min read
A tribunal will not look at a PIP decision until the department has looked at it again. Skipping the first step does not speed anything up — it stops the second one from starting.
9 min read
New applicants north of the border apply for Adult Disability Payment instead. The components look familiar and the weekly rates match, but the process behind them does not.
9 min read
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