Pip

brandylove

Can anyone tell me if my pip I have been awarded pip enhanced for daily living and standard mobility would continue to be paid if i do a MR I was previously awarded enhanced for both just got my decision after a phone call out of the blue 5 weeks ago from IAS who said it was not an assessment just ask a few questions so now I am 44 pound a week worse of I need to know if I do a MR will my payments stop until they make a decision

chiarieds

Hi @brandylove - & welcome to the community - no, if you do a MR your PIP stays in payment. Please don't worry as it's ever so rare for a MR to lower the award you already have too.

Remember PIP is not about any diagnosis, but rather how your disability affects certain activities of daily living &/mobility the majority of the time. Have a look again at the activities/descriptors that are looked at: https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/asset-library/personal-independence-payment-descriptors-and-scores-april-2023.pdf
With your MR you should say where you think you should have got points, & why giving a couple of recent, detailed examples as to the difficulty you face for each applicable descriptor, i.e. when did it happen, where, what happened, did anyone see this, & were there any consequences to attempting/doing an activity?
Say if you can't do an activity 'reliably,' i.e. safely, to an acceptable standard, repeat as often as one would reasonably expect, or if it takes you much longer than someone without a disability. See this mentioned at the end of the link above.
Put your name & National Insurance number on each page. Keep a copy, & get a free Certificate of Posting from your Post Office when sending it off.

nasturtium

Hello brandylove

Just to add to Chiarieds great advice.

If this is a "Review" of a previous award then the descision make must give a detailed reason on why your condition has improved to warrant a reduction in your previous award.

If you just put "no change" on your review form or gave little detail then now is the time to add detailed anacdotal written personal evidence on the problems and difficulties you are having now with your condition completing the PIP activities that apply to you Reliably (as stated above by Chiarieds)

You can find more information about challenging a rediction in youe award after review in my link bellow in my signature or by clicking here https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/696285#Comment_696285

Hope that helps

Nasturtium

brandylove

It was for review I returned all said info in Oct 22 then I got a phone call from independent assessment services with no warning saying it wasnt an assessment she just wanted ask me a couple of questions and not to worry I told her my daughter deals with all this as I'm unable to I only ans the phone as waiting g for doctor to review my meds for mental health conditions told her she should be discussing this with my daughter present as she is my appointee it's to save u going for health assessment and dont worry it will all be fine well 44 pound a week deduction not fine to me 

chiarieds

I've got to come back to this as it's concerning me. 

@brandylove - please will you say if:

 -you had an assessment with your daughter present as your appointee?

- or you had an assessment with your daughter, followed later by a phone call from IAS, despite saying your daughter wasn't there?

-or you just had a phone call (no previous assessment) where you were asked a couple questions by IAS, despite saying your daughter wasn't there, which seems to be the case?

Hannah_Alumni

Hello @brandylove

Welcome to the community!  

I'm sorry to hear that they have reduced your award. I agree with members here, if you feel that shouldn't have happened then you can put in for Mandatory Reconsideration. I'd encourage you and your daughter to reach out to Citizen's Advice for more support with the process. Please keep us updated

brandylove

They rang me from independent assessment services 10 months after sending back my review forms in October 2022 no warning no appointment on my own no appointee the lady said it was to save me going for assessment she did not say it was my assessment was literally 5 mins told me not to worry then pip letter came said you can either stay as you are on your current award for 12 months or take reduced amount for 3 years as ur condition is likely to change in 12 months dont know how they work that out but that's blackmail

bg844

brandylove said:

They rang me from independent assessment services 10 months after sending back my review forms in October 2022 no warning no appointment on my own no appointee the lady said it was to save me going for assessment she did not say it was my assessment was literally 5 mins told me not to worry then pip letter came said you can either stay as you are on your current award for 12 months or take reduced amount for 3 years as ur condition is likely to change in 12 months dont know how they work that out but that's blackmail

That’s not how PIP reviews work, would you please share a copy of your most recent decision letter (removing any personal information).

poppy123456

brandylove said:

They rang me from independent assessment services 10 months after sending back my review forms in October 2022 no warning no appointment on my own no appointee

Is your daughter your official appointee and she has all the paper work to confirm this? if so that's very concerning! They should not have even spoken to you because you have an appointee. May i ask if she lives with you? If not then why do they even have your phone number? They should have contact details of your appointee and not for you.

brandylove said:

pip letter came said you can either stay as you are on your current award for 12 months or take reduced amount for 3 years as ur condition is likely to change in 12 months dont know how they work that out but that's blackmail

That's very odd and a new one for me. I've never heard of that happening before. Once a new decision is made normally the procedure is for it to overrule the current decision. I've never known them to give you a "choice" before. I would start with making a complaint about this, which should be done by your appointee and not you.