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Waiting for court appeal date for PIP
lulu1949
Member Posts: 62 Courageous
hi, I am waiting for a court date and it seems to be taking ages. Rather nervous as I thought when my son had his assessment it would be obvious that he needed mobility allowance. He is in terrific pain when walking just a few steps, had operations galore into the teens since 2003 has to use a crutch constantly to walk. DWP have assessed he can walk between 50 and 200 metres .His dad drives him around for his job which involves doing ground floor boiler surveys of domestic houses. His need is an allowance for a mobility vehicle to allow him to drive himself. His dad is seventy one years old and not in good health. His left leg is constant pain but it is now affecting his right leg because of the pressure he is putting on it so an automatic car is not sufficient ,he needs paddles on the steering wheel, he wants to be independent but I am as his Appointee finding this process draining , it’s as if no one believes him. The assessment was full of lies, she did not even look at him , just typed . I might add that he has never ever been out of work or claimed off the state for anything .
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Anything else I can help with just ask
I would probably wait until the hearing as an email probably wouldn't be looked into. But you can send another letter if you feel you didn't fully explain things the first time around.
Many of our members have been through the process so you have good company in us.
Here's what I'm appealing against. I have depression,anxiety,OCD,some inconvenience linked to anxiety and have to limit my fluid intake if a toilet isn't near by because when I need to go,I need to go,so I need to wear a pad. Acid reflux where I have difficulty bending repeatedly. If I bend too much I feel sick and need to lie down. I take an anti emetic after showering because showering makes me feel tired and nauseous. I need to lie down afterwards and put the fan on so can do this twice a week,not very day. I have a learning difficulty and find it difficult to process and remember complex verbal and written information. I failed pre GCSE English and had a statement put on me and was put down in the last year at primary school,went on a reading program and struggled a lot in high school,that and that the bullying caused me to leave early with no qualifications. I can't get to an unfamiliar place without a relative coming with me. If they don't know the place,I'm stuffed. I tried and got lost,stressed out and was crying. That was 12 miles away. It ook me an hour to get there and an hour to get back! Never attempted it again on my scooter,which I'm on L-Plates for because I can't pass the flipping practical and needed extra time on the Theory and hazards,which I requested via the psychiatrist at the time(forgot to mention the psychiatrist bit,have found the letter since then.) I'm sensitive to certain sounds and noises. A neighbour kept revving their car a few years back and I was so irritated and anxious that I was shaking,screaming,crying and I wet myself. Relatives had to telk them to stop. I was throwing things about in my room. It was driving me nuts. Late last year I was at a small group and someone kept finger tapping and I had to ask them to stop. It got to the point where I was that irritated and stressed that if they hadn't stopped I would've had to complained. I was on the verge of tears. Another time a person brought in their child and it started being noisy. In the end I had to go outside because I was shaking with the stress of it and on the verge of tears. I can't go out for the day because of being too far away from home. The last time I tried was at a relatives funeral and the anxiety was sky high. I couldn't eat inside the pub when we stopped off for lunch. I needed to be outside and have space around me. On the way back Id got my tea with me. I had brought my tea with me and sat in the car and ate it. Relatives went into a supermarket to buy food,then came back to the car. I felt sick and had indigestion. The nausea didn't lift until the next day. I had to take an indigestion tablet when I got home because I wasn't issued with anti emetics back then. I can't go on holiday because of being away from home in a strange environment. The last time I tried,we'll was forced by my relatives to go at 14 years of age,we had to come back the next day because I was that anxious and couldn't go down for breakfast and had to have it brought up to the hotel room. They said I'd ruined their holiday! I can't go to the supermarket,all the people, kids,tannoy system. The last time I tried I ended up snapping at relatives and crying in Sainsburys,people were looking at me. My relative gave me the keys and told me to go back to the car. I sat in the car in the carpark,crying. Another relative used to trivialise my conditions until I told another relative and they intervened. If I'm shouted at I start to cry,which is embarrassing. I need distraction in order to take in food because of the anxiety. A person talking to me or the TV. The bullying at school(sometimes physical), college and work has left its mark. I was bullied about my lack of intelligence and my weight. A girl kept following me around near where I lived at the time and in the end an injunction had to be taken out. A boy inappropriately touched me when I was 11. Ironically,it was the years of bullying that caused my mental health problems. They know all of this. A relative put it on the form and I said it at the assessment. The MR was a nightmare. The company I used to help me skimmed through the evidence,put very little on the form and kept complaining about the computer not working properly. I had someone who helped to run a small group email another company on my behalf,who posted me a letter of representation after getting my consent for my bundle to be copied and scanned,then sent to them. The letter was amended in parts and then sent to the tribunal this January. I shan't be concentrating on the assessor not listening to me and asking the same questions several times. I will be mentioning that I was very anxious and crying at the time of the assessment because that was in the paperwork of them looking at the claim again before they decided to score me 2 points. 2 points for incontinence. It's a long road. I still haven't heard about whether I can get a telephone appeal or not and the evidence was sent in in November,which they notified me that they had received. If I can't get one,another company said that they'd arrange for a volunteer driver to take me in the afternoon after I've had a cooked meal. A relative can accompany me. I'm always having to try to find solutions to problems, mostly by needing the help of others,which I feel a burden,and having to justifying myself,even to friends at times. The friends who kept putting me down,I kicked to the curb,don't need them. All I can do is hope the wait isn't much longer. If it wasn't for relatives and a company or two,I would've given up on the appeal. Do you have the CAB to help you? A letter of representation mentioning the descriptors of where you think you should've scored points and why,giving real life examples may be of some use to send. Sorry to hear you feel alone with your thoughts. You're right,the thoughts do go round and round in your head. If I concentrated on them too much,I wouldn't get out of bed,which has happened at times. Twice last year I stayed in bed,only getting up to get food,drink and go to the toilet,watching TV at lunch and tea,then going back to bed for that day,but that doesn't solve anything. All of us need to fight. You need to fight this. Stay strong. Don't let them grind you down,that's exactly what they want. You can do this. We're all here to support one another.
Might lose my PIP - who knows I won't lose my UC so I had nothing to lose there. If I lose my PIP then I will be stuffed. I assume a tribunal can also take it away?
Or maybe she is going to use my PIP assessment which is more recent to conclude on WCA?