Disabilty benefit

[Guest newsi]

Hello all.

Is ocd a disability you can claim benefits for if I don't work

Simon

[Guest Sisyphus]

Hello all.

Is ocd a disability you can claim benefits for if I don't work

Simon

Gonna have to wait for someone else to give you a definitive answer on that one Simon.

In the meantime, all I can tell you is when I last looked into it, I was told I could apply for a thing called PIP. But they said that if I had savings of over £16000 I wouldn't be eligible.

See what everyone else says though cos that was a while back now.

[carolj]

Yes Simon, OCD is definitely classed as a disability when it comes to benefits. You should claim Employment Support Allowance. Will your doctor supply the medical certificates you will need until you are actually assessed? As to the medical assessment you hear all kinds of worrying stories, but actually my son has always been treated very well.

PIP is the new Disability Living Allowance and is harder to get. It is the one benefit you can get even if you are working. My son failed with this, but I know others have gone on to appeal and have won.

This might help too

https://www.rethink.org/living-with-mental-illness/money-issues-benefits-employment/employment-support-allowance/claiming

Carol

[Guest Annabel]

Hi Carol,

Did your son appeal against the PIP decision? Does he have problems with the PIP descriptors like washing, dressing, preparing food? and was his PIP claim backed by psychiatric/psychological evidence?- the reason I ask is that I just made an application for PIP and am quite concerned about it!

Also I am still waiting for the ESA forms (having applied in October when I was at Bedlam and been on assessment phase since then), should I have been sent them by now?!

[carolj]

Hi Annabel, Im not sure what the assessment phase is? Are you being paid something and are waiting for the medical assessment? Will you be due more once you have been to that?

If I were you I would use that phone number on the link I posted and find out exactly what is happening. It does seem a long time to wait for the forms, especially as you can do the main bit over the phone and then the form should be send straight away to be finished off.

It was actually a DLA claim at the time, but to be honest because his OCD is mainly Pure O, it was difficult to say he had problems washing, dressing etc, although leaving the house by himself has always been difficult. We should have followed it up and didn't. There have been quite a few people on here who have gone to appeal and won, so Im sure you will be fine

I would chase the other though.