Pip mandatory reconsideration

andylfc71
andylfc71 Online Community Member Posts: 11 Listener
edited January 3 in PIP, DLA, and AA

Happy New year to everyone.

I have a requested mandatory reconsideration for my PIP claim. And have just read that they could decide that I'm not entitled to it. This worries me.

I done it on the 12th Dec and I accept xmas closures, and they did say 8 weeks. I asked for a copy of the report and I got in 3 days when they said 15 weeks. Which revealed that the assessor changed my answers which has had a negative affect on my claim. IE.. Because I have go to my doctors twice a year and someone takes me, it shows as I can go out and plan a journey.

IThanks again.

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  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 62,910 Championing

    Most MR decisions remain the same as only about 26% of them change in the claimants favour. Timescales are up to 15 weeks.

    If it had a negative affect on the 1E descriptor, did you score any points for mobility? If so where please?

  • andylfc71
    andylfc71 Online Community Member Posts: 11 Listener

    I got 4 points for being able to move more 50 mtrs but no more than 200 mtrs.

  • Amaya_Ringo
    Amaya_Ringo Online Community Member Posts: 237 Empowering

    As Poppy said, the MR rarely contradicts the original decision - if you are determined to appeal and think they have got it wrong then it is better to push on to tribunal, where they consider your evidence more objectively.

    My MR consisted of someone taking two words from a seven paragraph document and using them to justify denying me support in most of the areas I am affected, so I found it the most frustrating part of the process :/ Iirc in the other areas the MR assessor gave me a handful of arbitrary points but not enough to validate a claim.

    I guess my advice is not to take it to heart and if you need to keep going, keep going. I was awarded in full at tribunal and my PIP was renewed uncontested when the review came up a few years later - my new decision letter cited my tribunal decision evidence as part of the reason why they had not reassessed me - they basically judged it as a form of assessment that was recent enough to qualify.

    My original assessment report was also not representative of the assessment that took place. At MR stage, however, they often seem to consider the 'assessment report' as more recent evidence of your disability than anything you send them, and thus tend to go with the outcome of that, even if it's not entirely accurate.

    The tribunal panel review the whole case from scratch and the outcome can only be appealed on a legal technicality.

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