PIP

[Kirsty01]

Hi was wondering if anyone gets PIP, I have applied but got refused so now putting an appeal in. Dose anyone have any advice. Thanks in advance.xx

 

[donnellysdogs]

It depends on your illnesse(s). I havent ever known anybody to get DLA or PIP solely from having diabetes. Some diabetics do all sorts of jobs and hobbies etc and it should not be disabling unless a person has other illnesses or bad complucations from diabetes.

It largely depends on how you can manage your independence.

 

[ally1]

I was lucky to get PIP. Was very surprised and got it for care no mobility but am very happy with it.
I am type2 for which I included on my form but I got it for my mental health and not diabetes. I feel so grateful as thousands get declined. I got it for 18 months, PIP people are crafty as a year before your claim ends, you go through the rigmarole of trying again. So I am waiting any day to try again.
From what I know, by me belonging to a PIP group on Facebook that with diabetes, it more or less declined.
But in saying that, I would have thought it depends if you need help if you have complications because of diabetes.
I would say, try but be very aware that you may well be declined

 

[leahkian]

I have get PIP and have so since i got diabetes since 1979 when i got diabetes, i was classed as a brittle diabetic which was hard to control. It was 6 years ago i had to go for a medical and i scored 0 points even though i had Diabetes, mental health problem, end stage renal failure and server nerve problems. My mental health team appealed and got letter from all my doctors but the trump card was welfare rights who came to represent me at my appeal, i went into the room to face a doctor and a judge. There should have been a lay person there but there was not, my welfare right person got up and stated that i need help with hypos and that would give me the 15 points i needed. The doctor was mad that i had even been sent there and reconmended that i not be asked to attend a medical for 3 years. At the time a company called ATOS were doing then medicals and the doctor i seen never looked up at me and i was in 5 mins. I had to have someone come out to do a interview to see if i still met the points taeget but the tories who sacked Atos and then gave them the contract for pip, the new rule was you were seen by any health person. I was in luck as i got a lady who was a ex mental health nurses and i had not long had a pancreas and kidney transplant and even though the transplant went well. when my BG got back to normal levels the true extent of the diabetic damage was reveled, all my nerve ending are damaged, when do the op they cut away some nerves away from my bladder with now is enlarged and can hold over 2 litres of fluid so i have to use a catheter 2-3 times a day, they think the tablets and the diabetes has damage my bowel and i am still under the local mental health team as well as the hospital. The doctors who did the transplant think this might be as good as it gets and they have told me that i might never be able to work again as i am as they put it " a very complexe case with so many underlying medical problems that work would would be unstainable for a long period of time". So yes you can apply for PIP but i would get help to fill the forms in and you have to answer as if it was your worst day. ATOS gets £500 for every person that signed of attendance allowence which is now PIP but there were that many people who had there cases overturned that it ended up costing them more than they were paying out in the first place