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Struggling with PIP.
SparkyMarkie
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Hi all, hope you are all well. Just hoping someone can help me or give advice about PIP as I'm beginning to come to the end of my tether!
So... My partner was in receipt of DLA for about 20 years. He had the letter late last year to apply and go over to PIP. We have applied, been to the face to face and he has been refused and awarded 0 points! He has a learning disability, he cant read or write and finds it hard to understand, communicate with professionals, making phone calls writing letters filling out forms and reading is all left to me, as well as everyday things, like cooking his meals, helping him make decisions, managing all the budgeting needs etc etc. Basically if I wasn't with him I don't know where he would be. Its all left down to me to try and sort everything out, he doesn't have any support workers anymore as they took it off him due to 'cut backs'. I think its because I moved in with him and they have left everything to me. Is this one of the reasons they scored him 0 points? due to not having support workers? Did they not take into consideration about his reading and writing after I filled out the forms went to the face to face with him and help him answer questions he didn't understand? It was written in the decision that he could read and write, he could cook meals himself because he answered to the assessor that he had 2 meals a day? Not who cooked and prepared them! There are several questions in this context that were asked another was if he knew what a £5 note was he said yes, they have presumed he can take care of all his budgeting decisions. Its made me angry as its made out we are lieing! I just really don't know what to do. I have started the ball rolling with the Mandatory Reconsideration. But expecting it to go further to the tribunal stage. Will a statement from me be ok? One from and old support worker? One from his Dad? and possibly a letter from his GP?.... I just didn't know where else to turn. I am sorry if this doesn't make sense at any point or its long winded but I hope someone somewhere can give me some advice? Thanks, Mark.
So... My partner was in receipt of DLA for about 20 years. He had the letter late last year to apply and go over to PIP. We have applied, been to the face to face and he has been refused and awarded 0 points! He has a learning disability, he cant read or write and finds it hard to understand, communicate with professionals, making phone calls writing letters filling out forms and reading is all left to me, as well as everyday things, like cooking his meals, helping him make decisions, managing all the budgeting needs etc etc. Basically if I wasn't with him I don't know where he would be. Its all left down to me to try and sort everything out, he doesn't have any support workers anymore as they took it off him due to 'cut backs'. I think its because I moved in with him and they have left everything to me. Is this one of the reasons they scored him 0 points? due to not having support workers? Did they not take into consideration about his reading and writing after I filled out the forms went to the face to face with him and help him answer questions he didn't understand? It was written in the decision that he could read and write, he could cook meals himself because he answered to the assessor that he had 2 meals a day? Not who cooked and prepared them! There are several questions in this context that were asked another was if he knew what a £5 note was he said yes, they have presumed he can take care of all his budgeting decisions. Its made me angry as its made out we are lieing! I just really don't know what to do. I have started the ball rolling with the Mandatory Reconsideration. But expecting it to go further to the tribunal stage. Will a statement from me be ok? One from and old support worker? One from his Dad? and possibly a letter from his GP?.... I just didn't know where else to turn. I am sorry if this doesn't make sense at any point or its long winded but I hope someone somewhere can give me some advice? Thanks, Mark.
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@poppy123456 I rang them to request the MR I stated to them I would be sending evidence and letters to them though and they have said I need to send it all within a month so I am going to do that. It was a pretty rushed process to be honest, after I had sent the form back. Got an appointment for the F2F assessment by text, 5 days before, didn't receive any letters until after the appointment about directions etc so I had to source them myself. I did ring and they said it was because of a cancellation so they squeezed him in. The F2F then only lasted approx 20 minutes it was so very quick. I am going to keep going with it.
@Fetlock Ok.