PIP Daily Living Activities 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A claimant can communicate verbally but only in short sentences due to a stammer and requires extra time. Which activity is being assessed?
- Engaging with other people face to face
- Communicating verbally (Correct answer)
- Reading and understanding signs
- Making budgeting decisions
Correct answer: Communicating verbally
Communicating verbally assesses the ability to express and understand verbal information, including difficulties caused by stammering, aphasia, or hearing loss.
Question 2: What does the PIP descriptor 'needs supervision' mean in the context of Daily Living activities?
- Another person must physically do the task for the claimant
- Another person must be present to avoid a risk to the claimant but does not need to act (Correct answer)
- Another person must prompt the claimant to start the task
- The claimant must be in a care home setting
Correct answer: Another person must be present to avoid a risk to the claimant but does not need to act
Supervision means another person must be continuously present and watching over the claimant to ensure their safety, without necessarily taking any physical action.
Question 3: A claimant with diabetes needs to check their blood glucose levels three times a day and manage insulin injections. Which Daily Living activity covers this?
- Preparing food
- Managing therapy or monitoring a health condition (Correct answer)
- Washing and bathing
- Making budgeting decisions
Correct answer: Managing therapy or monitoring a health condition
Managing therapy or monitoring a health condition covers tasks like checking blood glucose and administering insulin as part of a regular home treatment regime.
Question 4: Under PIP, what does 'making budgeting decisions' assess?
- The ability to manage a household budget over months
- The ability to understand and respond to simple or complex budgeting decisions (Correct answer)
- The ability to apply for benefits and tax credits
- The ability to save money and plan for retirement
Correct answer: The ability to understand and respond to simple or complex budgeting decisions
The making budgeting decisions activity assesses whether a claimant can understand the value of money and make purchases or complex financial decisions.
Question 5: A claimant can only make simple budgeting decisions but cannot manage complex ones such as understanding bills or a bank account. How many points could they score for this activity?
- 0 points
- 2 points (Correct answer)
- 4 points
- 6 points
Correct answer: 2 points
Being able to make simple budgeting decisions but not complex ones scores 2 points under the making budgeting decisions activity.
Question 6: Which of the following conditions would most likely affect the 'dressing and undressing' Daily Living activity under PIP?
- Severe arthritis in the hands and wrists (Correct answer)
- Severe depression only
- A hearing impairment
- Diabetes with well-controlled blood sugar
Correct answer: Severe arthritis in the hands and wrists
Severe arthritis in the hands and wrists directly impacts the physical ability to fasten buttons, zip clothing, or handle garments, making dressing and undressing difficult.
Question 7: When assessing PIP Daily Living, which of the following is considered a 'prompting' need rather than a 'physical assistance' need?
- Another person helps a claimant lift their legs into the bath
- Another person cuts up a claimant's food
- Another person reminds a claimant with dementia to eat their meals (Correct answer)
- Another person washes a claimant's back they cannot reach
Correct answer: Another person reminds a claimant with dementia to eat their meals
Prompting involves reminding, encouraging, or cueing the claimant to carry out an activity, as in reminding a person with dementia to eat — rather than physically doing it for them.
PIP Daily Living Activities 4
A claimant can communicate verbally but only in short sentences due to a stammer and requires extra time.
Which activity is being assessed?