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Chronic Fatigue and UC Health Assessment

My daughter has been receiving universal credit since Nov, and has a sick note until July from the GP for Chronic Fatigue / ME / Fibromyalgia. For the first appointment, I had to wheel her down to the Jobcentre in her wheelchair, and she has such bad brain fog I had to answer all the questions for her (beyond the basics, name and date of birth).
I'm dreading the assessment - just going to the centre will be exhausting for her, so both my husband and I are taking time off work to go with her. She suffers from chronic pain and I am worried someone is going to touch her - her friend's mum had a broken leg and they were 'poking' it to check it was really broken at the same centre a few months ago.
Can we refuse to let someone physically touch her? I have to be very gentle when I am with her, to avoid triggering her fibromyalgia. She has had a terrible time with PIP and we are waiting for the tribunal for this, so I have very little faith in the system. Of course, she is young and beautiful and 'looks' fine.
I'm dreading the assessment - just going to the centre will be exhausting for her, so both my husband and I are taking time off work to go with her. She suffers from chronic pain and I am worried someone is going to touch her - her friend's mum had a broken leg and they were 'poking' it to check it was really broken at the same centre a few months ago.
Can we refuse to let someone physically touch her? I have to be very gentle when I am with her, to avoid triggering her fibromyalgia. She has had a terrible time with PIP and we are waiting for the tribunal for this, so I have very little faith in the system. Of course, she is young and beautiful and 'looks' fine.
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Has your daughter been given a date for her assessment yet? Best of luck with it and please let us know how you get on.
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They had a sign up saying if any of the movements they asked you to do would cause you pain, that you could refuse them, which we were prepared to do, but nothing was asked of her.
We will wait for confirmation to arrive in writing, but the best part was she would be taken off the system for 'looking for work' for 2 years and registered as in the 'support group', so I wouldn't have to keep completing her 'to-do list' and she wouldn't keep having to speak to an advisor.
We still have the PIP tribunal to get through (refused all PIP), but I'm hoping this adds weight to it.
Thank you everyone!
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Best of luck with the PIP tribunal. Have you got a date for this yet?
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I'll check her UC journal tomorrow.
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How would I evidence this? Would 'changing' her story to reflect her current (much worse) physical situation look suspicious? Or do we just wait and if we lose the tribunal, reapply for PIP on the basis of her current state?
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