Hello incredibly helpful sub! I'm helping a friend with a mandatory reconsideration letter for PIP and I have a couple of questions. She suffers from long-term anxiety, depression and agoraphobia, to the degree that is relevant.

1. When it says that you should be able to complete a task safely, repeatedly, to a reasonable standard and in a reasonable time period, which statement applies if you can't? So for example it takes my friend a very long time to select clothes and get dressed - including time spent the night before - and she has to take frequent breaks. But none of the statements seem to apply to that scenario. She doesn't need an aid, assistance, prompting, or someone to help her, and she can dress herself - it just takes forever. I have considered whether, as she has to sit down on the bed frequently while dressing, the bed counts as an aid, but that seems like a stretch. But then presumably if she had a stool specifically for that purpose that would be an aid, so idk.

Same with cooking. She can cook for herself and her children, but it takes her all day to do the preparation (e.g. preparing vegetables, setting out crockery and cutlery). So although she doesn't need prompting, aids, etc, and therefore none of the statements apply, she can't do it in what I think most people would consider a reasonable timeframe.

1. Under mobility, two different statements appear to apply:

Needs prompting to be able to complete any journey (to avoid overwhelming psychological distress to the claimant) - 4 points

Cannot follow the route of an unfamiliar journey without another person, assistance dog or orientation aid - 10 points

Are these two separate categories, or two graduated statements in the same category? In other words, is that a total of 10 points or 14?

1. Her letter includes a couple of statements that are objectively false and don't reflect what she told the interviewer (It says she is able to attend work when she hasn't been able to attend work in person for over a decade; it says she doesn't take any medication specifically for anxiety when she is on a long-term SSRI for both depression and anxiety). Is there any point correcting these statements if they don't make any difference to points? (As far as I'm aware, whether or not she's taking medication has zero bearing on what help she's entitled to, right?)

Many thanks for any guidance on any of the above.