Special diet help as therapy among PIP assessment guide updates

First update to the PIP assessment guide since November 2018 includes new guidance on the circumstances where extra help with the requirements of a special diet can constitute therapy (referring to decision made back in 2016 - SSWP v LB [2016] UKUT 530 (AAC)

Other updates summarised as -

a change in the guidance for award duration - this is to ensure that people are not given short awards and reassessed unnecessarily. A change in the guidance on the number of companions at the assessment. A change in the guidance around mobility following engagement with MS Society. A number of minor amendments to give clearer definitions and to better reflect legal requirements.