Anxious about assessment report

chiarieds

Hi @karen19862 - Remember PIP is not about any diagnosis, but rather how your disability affects certain activities of daily living &/mobility the majority of the time.

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.

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.

Unless there are one or 2 irrefutable errors (which it sounds like is the case) overall it's best to put your assessment report behind you - sadly there are often many 'cut & paste' phrases that are used which often bear little relevance to the difficulties you actually face. It's the decision letter (which often uses phrases from the assessment report) that you're disagreeing with.

As you can see from this link, the being able to drive issue comes up fairly frequently, & can be easily refuted as a reason to not award PIP. The responses are from Welfare Rights officers, etc. who help people with their tribunals:

https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/view/viewthread/10229/

As poppy previously advised, if there's a Welfare Rights Office near you, they may be able to help. You can check here:

https://advicelocal.uk/

karen19862

I've done all this x my claim was very detailed with real life experiences I added extra pages for everything , they have used a report from last year but not any info from the tribunal which I assume is because it's from the courts and not actual dwp.

karen19862

There is some very interesting information on the link you posted, I've had a good look through them and some of it is beyond belief how things get misconstrued.

karen19862

Update, received a letter today saying they have everything they need to decide , yep the big standard letter, maximus have said they sent a letter regarding my complaint on 6th December but nothing yet and I also requested my SAR from them and that should have been here now too.

I have contacted my local MP and my local Mayoress regarding the tardiness and the way my case has been handled.

Not getting my hopes up but I am ready for a fight with this one yet again .

karen19862

I have now been accepted for my blue badge , I have sent exactly the same evidence to dwp for my MR as I did for my blue badge, so will ring them Monday to tell them .