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Sharing my PIP assessment / fibrolymagia exp for support and discussion
rebecca71
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Hi,
I have just experienced my first PIP assessment at home. I felt humiliated and it was degrading. It is bad enough to live with an invisible health condition but I now feel angry that people genuinely affected in all areas of their life have to go through this.
I researched carefully that I would meet the desciptors and I had my partner and OT with me.
We live with the minute by minute challenges of health problems and ATOS employed by DWP feel it is necessary to come from a stance of you making us feeling guilty for trying to claim a benefit to help with the extra costs of a health condition.
Anyone else had PIPS awarded for Fibromyalgia? Or a similar experience? Any support be great.
thanks
I have just experienced my first PIP assessment at home. I felt humiliated and it was degrading. It is bad enough to live with an invisible health condition but I now feel angry that people genuinely affected in all areas of their life have to go through this.
I researched carefully that I would meet the desciptors and I had my partner and OT with me.
We live with the minute by minute challenges of health problems and ATOS employed by DWP feel it is necessary to come from a stance of you making us feeling guilty for trying to claim a benefit to help with the extra costs of a health condition.
Anyone else had PIPS awarded for Fibromyalgia? Or a similar experience? Any support be great.
thanks
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PIP isn't awarded based on a diagnosis, it's how those conditions affect you daily. Lots claim PIP because of how fibro affects them but we're all different and no 2 people are the same. What might affect one person may not affect another person and this why you can't possibly compare 2 people with the same condition.
Ring DWP and ask for a copy of the assessment report, this will give you some idea what the decision will be as they mostly go with the report. Good luck.