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Mandatory consideration advice - my rate has been reduced

Hi i wonder if a benefits advisor could help me i,ve been on pip since 2013 and always had the enhanced rate but i had my recent pip assesement on 3rd jan got decision on friday and been put on standard rate the assesor has give me the worse points possible the thing is my health condition has got worse with having ipf that was,nt even taken into account i even sent all medical records to the dwp but not made any difference i,m going for a MR but want to no if my ipf and ASD will be looked at properly because the outlook for ipf is not good at all so please any advice/help would be grateful
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It seams standard practice for the DWP to reduce everything. Do you have a current report/letter from your GP to back you up? If not I would suggest asking your GP to support you (the GP may say "the DWP request this from us", but it's doesn't seam to be standard practice any more.), It appears they don't read medical reports for some reason.
It seams you have your copy of the assessment, pick out descriptors that will help the most - as questioning everything could mean you lose the standard rate you already have - and they could make you go through the whole process again, stopping your current benifit in the meantime.
They are like a spiteful bullying child that you can't reason with.
If a benefits advisor on here can do that same thing - them bless them too.
Hope this helps in some way.
PIP is about how the impairments affect you day to day rather than the impairment itself.
You can watch our videos about appealing the decision here
You can also see the table of desciptors for PIP here.
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