How ‘reliability’ regulation 4 can save PIP

DATE 21 April 2022, Online DATE 27 June 2022, Online DATE 7 October 2022, Online DATE 30 January 2023, Online

This half-day online training course explains how PIP entitlement ‘points’ can be scored if you show you cannot do something ‘reliably’.

In this way, understanding reliability regulation 4 is vital to your understanding of who qualifies for PIP, and accordingly how you can support PIP claims and appeals.

The course covers:

■ How PIP is supposed to work ■ What goes wrong at the PIP assessment stage? ■ The importance of reliability regulation 4(2A) ■ The interplay between regulations 7 and 4(2A) ■ How regulation 4(2A) sets the reliability standard ■ Whether you can do something safely ■ Whether you can do something to an acceptable standard ■ Whether you can do something repeatedly ■ Whether you can do something in a reasonable time period ■ How PIP case law can be very helpful ■ How to use regulation 4(2A) to improve PIP claims and challenges

I manage a team of volunteers that I have trained to complete PIP forms. They were struggling to understand various aspects of the regulations. I can now explain with confidence the issues they raised