Pip mandatory reconsideration success?

Laurb495

Hi has anyone had any luck with a MR please?Also how long was the time scale?. The report person has put that I have said I could do certain things which is not true. I really don't know what to do, the person who was going to help me with the call was no longer available as the assessment was over a hour late. I told him it's not me that manages my meds it is my sister but she has left me the info to give due to been able to read off a paper this counted as managing my meds well. He also put I told him I could understand him which I did the opposite 🤔. Feel kind of confused about all this like there's nothing that will be on my side with it my anxiety is through the roof.

Nylah_Ace

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/130166/pip-mandatory-reconsideration-success

Hello Laurb495,

I am sorry you are going through this, unfortunately it is happening to a lot of people. Regarding MRs there isn’t a set timeframe, the first time I did one in 2021 they responded within a month, last year summer it was two months.

If the outcome isn’t one you agree with you can appeal further.

Best Wishes

MyHappy256

I previously went through 3 PIP applications, the first one got 12 points and the second one got nil points, before the third PIP application was awarded PIP under special rules because I was terminally ill.

In my first PIP application I was 1 point short of PIP and did not realise it, did not take it to MR or Tribunal at the time.

By my second PIP application I took it all the way, MR seemed to just be a step in their process, like a tick box exercise before tribunal. Despite them having gotten my condition fundamentally wrong as in they classed me as having a skin condition whereas I had liver failure and the fact that they used someone else's report and someone else's tests and observations to document my report, they still ruled under MR that their decision was 100% accurate?

I even took the matter to tribunal, and they were more interested in breaking for lunch on the Friday than actually reading through the facts, so unfortunately I don't have a lot of faith in the process.

My third application was successful when I went through CAB, by then I was terminal and I qualified under special rules, your GP has to sign off a DS1500, but that probably won't apply to you as you have to have less than 6 months left to live. Under special rules, if you manage to survive for up to 3 years you then have to go through the process again?

In 2023 I had a life saving transplant, despite all my other organs still failing, this is classed as no longer being terminal, despite the fact that I am kept alive by my new transplanted liver and the medication which I have to take for life and despite the fact that my other organs are beginning to fail, I am still technically required to go through the whole process again at the end of the year.

Best of luck and don't give up, it is a long drawn out and exhausting process, very stressful and very dehumanising, best advice if you have not already done so is to go through someone like CAB?

Albus_Scope

Hey @Laurb495 I've been through 3 MRs now. The first two led to having to go to tribunal which I won both of, but my last one ended up being changed (To enhances rates for daily and mobility) once I applied for the tribunal.
There's a low success rate for MRs still, but it's not the end of the road as tribunals have a 70% success rate.

Nylah_Ace

@Abs_Scope The exact same thing happened to me, two MRs both to tribunal where successful. I am hoping my third time round DWP choose not to embarrass themselves and just do the review assessment properly.

Tribunal success rate is much higher and it appears paper hearings successes are increasing as both of mine were paper hearings. Both overturned on the same information DWP already had. Maybe the increase in paper hearings are due to the level of appeals going to tribunal who know. Don’t give up.

Best of luck @Laurb495

Dendoo

first time applying for pip for me never got enough points asked for a mr was awarded 4 points on mobility so still not enough points for either . Ready to go the full hog!

Nylah_Ace

@Dendoo Definatly go full hog, I like many others think they just want us to give up, and previously I had (first applied in 2018 and was unsuccessful), tried again in Jan 2021, rejected, Oct 2021 MR, rejected, tribunal Dec 2021 awarded. Review June 2024 downgraded, Sept 2024 MR, rejected tribunal Feb 2025 awarded full everything - currently awaiting backpay.

Keep fighting.

Dendoo

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/992878#Comment_992878

Thanks Nylah 😊 glad you got there in the end❤️

sben

From what I have experienced, PIP does not care.

Dendoo

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/993079#Comment_993079

therefore nor should we are facing it head on when we’re truthful .