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<p /> <p /> <p /> <p>Eligibility for the two main working age disability benefits
– Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) –
is assessed through two separate assessments. However, common to both is that they
look at disabled people as individuals, and do not label them by their health condition,
impairment or disability.</p><p>The PIP assessment considers the impact of an individual’s
condition on their ability to carry out some key everyday activities. Similarly ESA
looks to determine not what condition an individual has but rather how that condition
impacts on the individual’s functional capacity to work.</p><p>Both assessments include
descriptors which take account of physical, sensory, mental, intellectual and cognitive
impairments. Claimants for either benefit – whether with a mental health condition,
physical condition or both – will not be refused benefit simply because they do not
require an aide, advocate or appointee.</p>
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