Hi all,
My husband’s sister
in law (previous marriage) has adults Stills Disease. She went to Tribunal on
the 23/1/19 in Enfield. She was awarded 8 points for DLA and 10 points for
mobility.
They've said she's
only entitled to the Standard rate from 11/7/18 to 8/5/2021. This means she
won't qualify to keep her mobility car.
There were many
inaccuracies highlighted at the tribunal in regards to medical reports and also
at her face to face assessment she was never asked to walk/observed doing
activities, arrived in a wheelchair which was pushed by her sister (her carer).
Without her car she
is housebound and also cannot attend hospital appointments as no one else but
she in the family can drive.
Following on from
the above, we sat down with CAB and they advised to re-apply under new
circumstances/changes, I took the old forms and the last assessment and the
reports from the tribunal and ripped it apart, i found that the tribunal had
more or less written verbatim what the assessment had and the assessment was
littered with mistakes, the assessor had said that she couldn't eat without the
use of aids and yet when they scored it said that she didn't need aids, that
was one of many, i highlighted and commented on each one and submitted pictures
and cross referenced them in the report and also when tearing apart the
assessment documents highlighted the pictures with the aids used - all of which
i might add she's purchased herself! After waiting the best part of 6 weeks,
she received a letter asking about ESA and has been called in for an
assessment for PIP but they had the nerve to tell her
that she has to make an appointment and see them in the next 7 days! She rang
them up and told them to sod off in terms of the timescale that she needs time
to arrange it, in coordination with hospital and doctors’ visits, so hoping
this time the assessment will go better...
Can you please offer advice/rules on entering the assesment room with her please? We've asked to be seen at Watford now.
Thanks.
