Hello
I wonder if you can help me, please. I have brittle T1 diabetes, with impaired hypo awareness and I was on DLA but was just too young
(by 1 year) for it to continue, so I applied for PIP. The assessment was awful and full of errors and the HCP had no idea of T1 diabetes at all. In her report she wrote that "insulin helps her symptoms"!!
Mandatory reconsideration was turned down, the decision was mostly cut and pasted from the original medical report, including all the errors.
I waited ten months, without money obviously, for an appeal and my appeal was rejected. The DLA helped me to fund a continuous glucose monitor and to pay for mobility therapy. I need both in order to be relatively safe. I have just requested permission to appeal to the upper tribunal and that has been refused so I am now trying to fill in the form to ask directly for an appeal to the upper tribunal. I have had advice from CAB and a local voluntary disability service and they both believe that the CGM falls under the description of an Aid or Appliance as stated in the Disability Rights Handbook. The tribunal failed to recognise that. They also failed to respond to the case law ruling on assessing unpredictable and fluctuating diseases; and the case law which says that the claimant's evidence should be given equal value to that of medical evidence. I did actually submit medical evidence too but that also was ignored.
Sorry this is so long, but my question is...... we thought that all of these points were errors of law, in that they failed to address them and that the medical expert on the 1st tier panel had no knowledge of brittle T1 diabetes - are they errors of law and will they be sufficient to list on the UT1, please.
