@PhillippaCartledgeRiley. For anyone wanting to claim benefits successfully go onto www.benefistandwork.co.uk and pay the £19.95 annual subscription. You will then have full access to guides and examples of how to fill in the forms and answer the questions for claiming ESA and PIPS for people suffering with fibro,anxiety,arthritis you name it there is a form for every illness. It will be the best £19.95 you ever spent. It tells you everything you need to know about form filling, the answers to put on the forms, guides on assessments and appeals. You will be amazed!

i struggles but get standard rate pip but not at work. you will struggle to get both.

You should also make sure you apply for a blue badge as well. If you are having trouble with your mobility it is a godsend. This was also something they asked me about in my assessment. Good luck.

You poor thing. Sorry I was a bit off yesterday and sorry if I seemed a bit judgmental. I have had a terrible few days with ibs and diarrhoea and was up all night in and out of the bathroom sorry was probably a bit grumpy! It's not impossible to get PIP and be working just a little more difficulty to prove.
The guides in the website will talk you thru everything and more or less do the work for you. My biggest piece advice would be study that PIP form and answer the questions in as much detail as possible even if you have to go onto other pages and be as wordy as possible and think of how you feel at your very worst and use that as a guideline for how you feel everyday. As unfair as it seems if you can fill that form in and more or less cover everything they might want to ask you in an assessment they may decide you don't need an assessment and award it based on just the form. Good luck and make sure you photocopy the form and yoyr answers before you send it. Keep us posted and let us know how you get on.

I have pip for my osteoarthritis but now I have fibromyalgia and depression and anxiety attacks I have put in a new claim as my mobility is very limited now go ahead and do it you have nothing to lose good luck☺xx