Get and Keep PIP - The Expert Guide

GET & KEEP PIP

Do you understand how your disability, ADHD, autism, chronic illness, mental health condition or fluctuating symptoms affect your life—but struggle to explain that impact clearly when a PIP form, review, assessment or official letter arrives?

Get & Keep PIP is a practical, easy-to-read guide for people making a new Personal Independence Payment claim, preparing for a review or renewal, or trying to strengthen the evidence supporting an existing claim.

The book helps you understand what to record, what to gather and how to organise your information before you are asked for it—so you are not forced to rely on memory when an important form or assessment arrives.

Written by Alison McRobbie, a former DWP employee, founder of The Justice Journals - The Uk's No.1 Self-Advocacy and Disability platform, reaching millions a month through her Youtube Channel Justice Journals TV, and a successful disability advocate who brought successful legal claims against the Department for Work and Pensions, including findings of disability-related harassment and failure to make reasonable adjustments.

Alison combines professional insight, lived experience, evidence-building expertise and first-hand experience of successfully challenging the DWP. She created this guide to help disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill people explain the reality of their lives more clearly, confidently and consistently.

Includes The PIP Plan

Readers also receive access to The PIP Plan, Alison’s practical framework for organising your condition, functional difficulties, evidence and support needs in one place.

The book also includes access to:

• the first three lessons from Alison’s PROVE IT® evidence training;

Although the main focus is PIP, the evidence-building principles can also help you prepare information for:

• Universal Credit and LCWRA assessments;
• Employment and Support Allowance;
• Work Capability Assessments and reviews;
• Access to Work applications;
• reasonable adjustments in employment;
• workplace grievances and occupational health;
• Employment Tribunal proceedings;
• Social Security Tribunal appeals;
• other disability-related applications and reviews.

This is not a complicated legal manual.

It is a clear, practical companion designed to help you stop relying on memory alone and begin recording the real-life impact of your condition in a way that future you can actually use.

It will help you think about what happens before, during and after an activity—including whether you can complete it safely, repeatedly, to an acceptable standard and within a reasonable time.

If you have ever thought:

“I know what I go through, but I don’t know how to prove it,”

this guide was created for you.

Get & Keep PIP forms part of the PIP Expert series from The Justice Journals and is a companion to My Health Journal by Alison McRobbie.

Please note: This book is for general information, self-advocacy and evidence organisation only. It is not legal advice, welfare benefits advice, employment advice or medical advice, and it does not guarantee any award, support, adjustment or outcome.