Personal Independence Payment – Mental Health

Who is this course for?

This course is for advisers who already have a good understanding of the PIP activities and descriptors.

Aims

The course will provide advisers with a detailed understanding of the descriptors that are most likely to be relevant to claimants with mental health conditions.

Objectives

By the end of this course delegates should:

• Understand the PIP descriptors in the context of a mental health condition
• Be able to identify which descriptors may be relevant to claimants with Mental Health conditions
• Understand what is meant by prompting and what evidence is useful to support prompting descriptors
• Understand the evidence that would be useful if prompting is not enough
• Understand the criteria for engaging socially
• Be able to identify the problem areas and who is vulnerable to these
• Feel more confident helping a claimant make a claim, or challenge a decision including appeals

A complete set of slides will be provided at the end of the course.