Thanks
@RogerBlack you actually have made a fair point about the care part of PIP if properly applied being more generous than DLA care component. I was referring to the mobility component being less generous now than DLA. Now to get high rate mobility you can only get it If you can't walk more than 20 metres reliably, repeatedly and safely. When I first applied late 90's for DLA there was no fixed distance and people could get high rate mobility up until distances of 200 metres or so. In recent years I think people were finding they were awarded high rate mobility for 50 metres, though a fixed distance was still not written down, decision maker's discretion. So many people have lost their high rate mobility award in the transfer to PIP I think they must have made savings for mobility part. Of course it's possible more are getting care awards than before. I haven't looked up the figures or know if they have been released?
Most of the fuss about 20m was before the 2013 amendment to the regs which added 'reliably' and the other caveats to the above. These make it arguably similar.
https://pipinfo.net/issues/reliably
With DLA, there was no real explicit time period, and very, very slow walking could count.
With PIP, if it takes you more than twice the time period, you can't do it.
Also, this is not 'of a limited life' - it's not 'can you walk 20m once a day' - once.
It's 'can you walk 20m most of the time you would normally expect to, if you were not disabled'.
How this is applied in practice may differ.
I did not dispute with PIP that I could walk over 200m, once, in a special occasion, with possible cost to my health.
I argued that I could not "
Can stand and then move more than 1 metre but no more than 20 metres, either aided or unaided.", because my ability was such that on most days I could not do this reliably, safely, ... as often as I would might normally hope to.
For example, I listed what I would normally do on a day when I was feeling very well, and related it to number of times I might '... 20 meters" .
For example - 'tidying up in the garden' 40*20m over the course of a couple of hours. Taking rubbish out - 10*20m, walking from the kitchen to the bathroom, rather than using the sink, walking outside to dry in the sun in the greenhouse.
And then compared to a typical day, and how limited I was, and what I was explicitly doing to avoid walking, because I could not cope.
This is (for normal people) entirely routine. If you can't do them most of the time because of your disease, even if you are now letting the garden rot, and rubish pile up, and not washing - your life is limited, this applies.