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PIP help?
DE3
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Hello everyone I was wondering if I could get some advice for my friend he is dyslexic and suffers with severe epilepsy since the age of 5 he is now 33years old, He recently got a home visit from capita for his move over to pip, I will add this was his second interveiw within 6weeks both conducted at home they said they had to reinterveiw him, he was in receipt of disability living allowance care component middle £57.30 plus mobility component component lower £22.65 a week .He received notification which is now removed all of the above and is now in receipt of enhanced mobility only. But refused standard living or enhanced living component, by two points reason given was he did not look anxious and know one was there with him at his home at time of interview. And has now lost His daily care component with the esa, we will ask for a mandatory Reconsideration, when we receive the point sheet from pip, any advice please he would be grateful for. Thank you
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I'm not myself a benefits advisor so can't directly help you, but we have some excellent people here who will and who will be in touch with you just as soon as possible. Please bear with us and keep in touch.
Very warmest best wishes to you,
Richard
2) Do not over focus on the stupidity of the report for your MR. Only 16% of MRs succeed so really you’re prepping for an appeal which will be some way down the line.
3) PIP approach to safety is now the same as a DLA - balancing risk against frequency of incidents - so the key issue is going to be around whether he gets sufficient warning of episodes to put himself in a place of safety and how frequent the fits are. Middle rate DLA care suggests no real issue overnight which equally suggests fairly infrequent.
4) Dyslexia is an often over-used word so you need to be very clear in providing written evidence of a diagnosis and tests done to establish that as well as the severity. It doesn’t automatically follow that points will be scored for reading, meds and so on. The case has to be clearly made in every respect.
i have uncontrolled epilepsy, daily with no warning.
have just put a MR in stating that my safety after having a seizure was not taken into consideration.
whilst having a seizure and for a period after I cannot hear, see, speak and am not aware of anybody or my surroundings.
i also said that I was not mentally ill or uneducated and would be very insulted if anybody beleave otherwise
so how can a decision be made on a 60min assessment when I hadn’t had a seizure for 2hours beforehand,
you have got to discredit the decision without making out that the assessor was lying.
Go for an MR
people with epilepsy need our condition to be taken seriously as it is life threatening and is not seen unless witnessed
good luck and keep me updated
remember safety is the key issue here
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmworpen/829/829.pdf
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Read more at https://community.scope.org.uk/discussion/41936/capita-complaint#eobwJUVvWRSMD6xf.99
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After reading the debate what are your thoughts about the recommendations that have been proposed?
FWIW I was profoundly disappointed by the committees recommendations. The evidence base was huge and some of the conclusions fell woefully short of what the evidence actually said.
As a WRA what do you feel they fell short on?
More incredible how they have come up with statistics that are shown on the charts (page 43) that the amount of unacceptable reports has dropped from more than 50% to less than 10%. There is a clear break in the chart which is explained in the small print below.that basically says (the way I read it) we have manipulated the statistics by altering how we decide to display them to make it look like there is nothing wrong with the system and we are doing a really good job