When your PIP award comes up for review, the DWP sends the AR1, the "Personal Independence Payment Review form". We write honest, first-person answers for each activity, built around how you manage now, and we never invent a change.
The AR1 is the form the DWP uses to look at an existing PIP award again, usually as it nears its end date. It is not a fresh claim. You already have an award, and the review is checking whether your needs are still the same or have changed, in either direction, since the award was last looked at.
A new claim on the PIP2 form asks you to describe each activity from scratch. The AR1 starts from where your award already is, so it is framed around change. For every activity it asks three things, and we answer all three for you:
We never invent a change. That matters more on a review than anywhere else, because the whole form turns on whether things have shifted.
Field (a) starts from a truthful template that reads: "my health has not improved since my award was last looked at ([date])...". If nothing has genuinely changed, that is your honest answer and you leave it as it is. If something real has changed, you replace that line with the actual change and roughly when it happened. We give you the honest starting point; only you can add a change, and only a real one.
Here is a sample AR1 answer for Q6, Washing and bathing, showing the three fields the review asks for. Your own answers are built from your conditions, not this example.
Add your conditions and the date your award was last looked at, then tick the things you struggle with.
Each activity, structured for the review, with the honest change template and how you manage now.
Add any real change and its date, edit anything that is not quite you and write it onto your own AR1.
The DWP decides every review, and no service can change that or promise a result. What clear wording can do is make sure the form describes how you manage now fully and accurately, in the terms the assessment actually uses.
Our answers are built around the reliability rules: they describe whether you can do each activity safely, to an acceptable standard, repeatedly and in a reasonable time, on your typical and bad days rather than your best ones, because a descriptor applies if it fits on more than half of the days. They name the aids and the help you rely on now, including anything you need but do not get. And they keep the honesty rule front and centre, so field (a) never claims a change that has not happened.
Guidance only, not legal or medical advice and not affiliated with the DWP. You copy the answers onto your own form and send it yourself, so it stays in your name and your handwriting.
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