Claiming PIP for wearing hearing aids????

[cossy400]

More of a nosey really.

Has any phers claimed PIP fir wearing them??

Government.uk website says you can etc

And a powerfully built director type I occasionally see in my local has applied.

£68 a week tax free...

[Colonel Cupcake]

I claim PIP for deafness. For various reasons, I cannot wear hearing aids so that may have helped.

Knowing the DWP, if you can wear hearing aids, they may claim that you are no longer disadvantaged. After all, no-one who wears spectacles have claimed PIP for that. Have they?

[cossy400]

Colonel Cupcake said:

I claim PIP for deafness. For various reasons, I cannot wear hearing aids so that may have helped.

Knowing the DWP, if you can wear hearing aids, they may claim that you are no longer disadvantaged. After all, no-one who wears spectacles have claimed PIP for that. Have they?

This is exactly my thoughts, he wears them but said he's claiming it.....

Hence its more of a nosey post more than anything.

Probably being over nosey by looking at the gov site

It's just seems odd that they would pay it for like you say hearing aids but no mention of glasses etc 🤔

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Colonel Cupcake said:

Knowing the DWP, if you can wear hearing aids, they may claim that you are no longer disadvantaged. After all, no-one who wears spectacles have claimed PIP for that. Have they?

I wear glasses and they give me 20/20 vision. My wife wears a hearing aid and it increases her hearing from 0 to 25% in that ear. She has a cochlear implant in the other ear, which gives a mechanical hearing based on 22 sensors placed in her cochlear, rather than the 250K sensors a hearing person has.

Comparing the results of hearing aids to glasses is a bit like saying someone with a prosthetic leg could play for Real Madrid.

[Colonel Cupcake]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Colonel Cupcake said:

Knowing the DWP, if you can wear hearing aids, they may claim that you are no longer disadvantaged. After all, no-one who wears spectacles have claimed PIP for that. Have they?

I wear glasses and they give me 20/20 vision. My wife wears a hearing aid and it increases her hearing from 0 to 25% in that ear. She has a cochlear implant in the other ear, which gives a mechanical hearing based on 22 sensors placed in her cochlear, rather than the 250K sensors a hearing person has.

Comparing the results of hearing aids to glasses is a bit like saying someone with a prosthetic leg could play for Real Madrid.

Yes, I am aware of that. I did used to wear hearing aids long ago and I often wish that they could do for my hearing what my glasses can do for my eyesight.

I did mention it because I helped a colleague with her recent PIP application and, because of her use of various aids, she didn't get enough points to qualify, even though the descriptor gave points for aids but that is a whole new thread.

[Megaflow]

Colonel Cupcake said:

I claim PIP for deafness. For various reasons, I cannot wear hearing aids so that may have helped.

Knowing the DWP, if you can wear hearing aids, they may claim that you are no longer disadvantaged. After all, no-one who wears spectacles have claimed PIP for that. Have they?

Given how the tax burden is at the minute, I’m not sure I’d be surprised if they were dishing out PIP for hearing aids and glasses. All the tax we are paying has to be going somewhere

[Colonel Cupcake]

Megaflow said:

Colonel Cupcake said:

I claim PIP for deafness. For various reasons, I cannot wear hearing aids so that may have helped.

Knowing the DWP, if you can wear hearing aids, they may claim that you are no longer disadvantaged. After all, no-one who wears spectacles have claimed PIP for that. Have they?

Given how the tax burden is at the minute, I’m not sure I’d be surprised if they were dishing out PIP for hearing aids and glasses. All the tax we are paying has to be going somewhere

I don't think you will find it amongst the jobless and disabled. Look a little further up the social scale.

[LooneyTunes]

cossy400 said:

Colonel Cupcake said:

I claim PIP for deafness. For various reasons, I cannot wear hearing aids so that may have helped.

Knowing the DWP, if you can wear hearing aids, they may claim that you are no longer disadvantaged. After all, no-one who wears spectacles have claimed PIP for that. Have they?

This is exactly my thoughts, he wears them but said he's claiming it.....

Hence its more of a nosey post more than anything.

Probably being over nosey by looking at the gov site

It's just seems odd that they would pay it for like you say hearing aids but no mention of glasses etc ??

To get it he will need to claim/have additional needs assessed. Needing hearing aids would get 2 points out of the 8 needed.

PIP is not means tested.

(The above from someone with me at the moment who sits on PIP appeal panels)

[solo2]

I claim PIP for a lengthy set of issues and it is really difficult to get.

I seriously doubt being deaf and wearing a hearing aid would give you enough points to satisfy even low rate care, and you would not get anything for mobility.

I have borderline hearing issues and it counts for nothing against my PIP

[TwigtheWonderkid]

solo2 said:

I seriously doubt being deaf and wearing a hearing aid would give you enough points to satisfy even low rate care, and you would not get anything for mobility.

What if, even with a hearing aid, your hearing was so bad, you'd struggle to use public transport unaccompanied, not being able to hear announcements. People wear hearing aids to give them maybe 10% hearing in 1 ear, whilst having no hearing at all in the other.