In our new weekly collection, readers can electronic mail with any query aboutT advantages are answered by our professional, Paul Brennan. Paul runs the Profit Solutions web site. He based it after his father had an accident at work and was unable to work, which left his household struggling financially for years. When you’ve got a query for him, please electronic mail cash@inews.co.uk.
This week’s query is from a reader, Debbie H, who lives in Cardiff. She says:
“I’m 36 and disabled. I’ve been recognized with Rheumatoid Arthritis and I’ve extreme anxiousness. Regardless of this, I simply managed to get a part-time job as a receptionist. I make £240 every week and my payments are £1,700. Am I nonetheless entitled to PIP?”
Paul replies: Whereas arthritis and anxiousness are thought of severe well being issues and are sometimes accepted for PIP, the DWP might deny your declare since you are employed. However that does not imply you are not entitled to a payout – here is what you must do.
PIP is a profit meant to assist individuals over the age of 16 and underneath state pension age with the extra price of residing with a long-term sickness, psychological or bodily situation or incapacity.
There are at present virtually three million working-age adults within the UK making use of for assist by way of PIP, and to be eligible you need to have a well being situation or incapacity the place you have got had difficulties with each day residing for 3 months – and anticipate that these difficulties will go away for at the very least 9 months.
You needn’t have a severe bodily incapacity to say PIP – there are at present 2,217 individuals within the UK claiming assist for sleep apnea and higher respiratory illness.
In case your well being situation means you need assistance getting ready meals, bathing, utilizing the bathroom, getting dressed, transferring or planning a visit, I strongly encourage you to file a declare.
Even when you have a job, you should still be entitled to payouts of as much as £156 every week to assist with prices – and in your case you’ll nonetheless want monetary assist to maintain up with the price of a share. time pay.
In your case, rheumatoid arthritis is extensively believed to be severe, and PIP claims for the situation are accepted 74 % of the time, in accordance with DWP statistics.
Generalized Nervousness Dysfunction additionally has a 42.7 % award price, so it’s best to anticipate to be accepted for PIP who suffers from these situations — however taking a job as a receptionist might jeopardize your declare.
As many as 48 % of PIP claims are rejected – and in my expertise many claims might be rejected for some motive associated to the claimant’s job.
This will depart you feeling confused and belittled, particularly when you’ll be able to clearly see that the Gov.uk website says “you will get PIP even when you work, save or get most different advantages”. So why would your declare be rejected since you work?
Once you filed your first declare, you will have talked about which you can’t put together a meal as a result of your arthritis makes it troublesome so that you can stand — or that you’ve a tough time leaving the home due to your anxiousness.
If the DWP sees that you’ve taken a job as a receptionist, they could be flagged as contradictory statements and also you usually tend to be taken off PIP. It is not nearly having a job, it is about what you do at work.
You will need to clarify in as a lot element as potential your obligations and any changes which may be essential to correctly carry out your job. For instance, when you took a part-time job as a digital receptionist, it nonetheless confirms your declare that you just discover it troublesome to depart the home. Have lodging been made for you so you do not have to depart your seat? Have you ever taken on a part-time place as a result of the each day commute is bodily too painful? If the DWP doesn’t have a crystal clear understanding of your bodily or psychological well being wants and the way it impacts your skill to work, your declare is more likely to be rejected.
If the DWP decides to evaluation your declare, it would ship you a declare type to finish to replace your present circumstances. Relying in your solutions, it might ask you to attend an evaluation – in individual, over the telephone or in a video name the place the employees will price how troublesome you discover each day duties.
For every process, they assess whether or not you are able to do it safely, how lengthy it takes, how usually your situation impacts it, and whether or not you need assistance from an individual or gear to carry out it. In your particular case – so long as you present as a lot element as potential about your job description and the changes that must be made for you in your place, it’s best to nonetheless be entitled to PIP.
