Why Do This Course?
PIP Assessments and Work Capability Assessments both use scoring systems to assess health problems. The assessments use similar processes of claimant questionnaires and medical examinations.
- The PIP assessment scores care and mobility needs
- The Work Capability Assessment scores work barriers
This course, usually done in a training-room setting, deals with both systems at once. You may prefer the separate sessions on Work Capability and PIP for online zoom/teams training
By doing the course you will:
- Understand how the work Capability Assessment decides whether you have Limited Capability for Work and Limited Capability for Work Related Activity
- Understand the practical consequences of a Work Capability Assessment on benefit entitlements
- Understand the purpose of PIP
- Understand how the DWP assesses care and mobility needs for PIP
- Understand how an award of PIP can affect other benefit entitlements
- Understand the processes of decisions, reconsiderations and appeals
- Be able to identify which of your service users meet which DWP criteria
- Become more effective at helping your service users to communicate their needs to the staff involved in undertaking the assessments
- Be able to support service users to understand the processes, to get the right result, and to challenge incorrect decisions through mandatory reconsiderations and appeals
- Understand the proposed wide-ranging changes to this system
Content
- Work Capability Assessments:
- The process
- Law and guidance
- Automatic passes
- Scoring
- Possible outcomes
- Common problems
- PIP:
- The PIP process
- The PIP activities
- Types of help
- Effective form-filling
- Face-to-face assessments
- Common problems
- Reconsideration requests and tribunal letters
- Proposed Changes