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Pip tribunal
Hi any advice? Went to tribunal running later well over a hour and half I was nervous wreck I think panel so see that plus represensive said it was to near so couldn't represent is so I was on me own
Judge mentioned about points could be taken away so judge seen I was in a state she asked if I wanted more time and asked if I needed to get advice told me to go out. When I was called back in she asked if I thought if I needed more time, I think my face said it all cause I was crippled with pain and haven't slept for weeks leading up to it so I agreed, judge says I would get another date but then says for me to sign to ask for medical records saying what my disabilitys and summary from go and documents from hops
what do you think I don't think I could go through that again any advice would be grateful Jean
Judge mentioned about points could be taken away so judge seen I was in a state she asked if I wanted more time and asked if I needed to get advice told me to go out. When I was called back in she asked if I thought if I needed more time, I think my face said it all cause I was crippled with pain and haven't slept for weeks leading up to it so I agreed, judge says I would get another date but then says for me to sign to ask for medical records saying what my disabilitys and summary from go and documents from hops
what do you think I don't think I could go through that again any advice would be grateful Jean
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2) HMCTS do not like adjournments so there always needs to be a justification. Getting GP records offers that and can also provide lots of useful information. If that includes what your diagnosis is though then that must have been a very poorly completed claim pack.
You can get help from the citizens advice on how to submit your paperwork
@markyboy a paper hearing is a poor idea. Overall PIP appeal success rates are 69%. Paper hearings the rate falls to about 3 to 5%.
Disability Rights UK site has a good guide to PIP appeals. And they publish their own Disability Rights Handbook which has a good section on tribunal appeals. £18.50 from their website or might be available in your local public library reference section.
Tribunals are supposed to be inquisitorial - the panel are there to find out what you can and can't do.
Ask CAB for help in finding a new representative.
When you go to your adjourned appeal, remembet the panel are not the DWP, nor do they represent the DWP. They are there to assess what you can and can't do.
A paper appeal is not a good idea. Bite the bullet and go for it.
I have recently had my appeal and although I was very frightened, it was not a bad experience at all.
It was successful and I have just received a year's worth of PIP as a result.
Suffice it to say that I refused point blank to get involved with that shenanigan.
I think you were quite right not to get involved in that.
I live in a council property and here the council employs a welfare rights worker. Having her by my side helped me enormously. She also wrote a submission to the panel for me.
I actually wrote my own detailed submission and sent it in to the tribunal (by recorded delivery) a month before the hearing. I was able to list the points I wanted to make and I attached a doctor's letter.
Most of my tribunal was based on my submission and I did get points for the things I suggested.
I do understand that it is very frightening but try to say to yourself, 'What's the worst that can happen?'
They DWP is being shown up time and time again now. Almost 70% of tribunals are successful and that figure is rising. They must urgently be reviewing their assessment process.
I found my PIP home assessment nerve-racking and got no points for anything, which made me feel like a liar.
Fortunately the tribunal doctor and disability worker did not agree and I got the standard rate for daily living PIP and it was awarded from a year previously.
I did write in my submission that I had felt that the initial assessor had made me feel that I was a liar. This is a very common reaction by disabled people who get a refusal. We have enough to worry about without having this chaos about PIP.
I do feel for you.
I am aware of one company whose case selection could be described as cherry picking and whose attempt to charge a three figure sum to return appeal papers to a client who wanted to go elsewhere, when the client could have got another set for free from HMCTS, was “interesting”.