When you put in a claim for PIP, a health professional will assess your ability to carry out a range of daily activities essential for getting by in everyday life.

This health professional will write a report for the Department of Work and Pensions, and they will make a decision on whether you are entitled to PIP – including how much you can get and for how long.

Currently, many of these are being done on the phone due to the coronavirus crisis, but the Government has confirmed face-to-face assessments for PIP will be some of the first benefit assessments to be reinstated.

The Government website reads: “As measures are taken across the country to ease restrictions, the department will also gradually resume some review and reassessment activity which had been put on hold because of the coronavirus outbreak.