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What are the reasons for which you have been denied PIP?

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What are the reasons for which you have been denied PIP?
Our Campaigns team would like to hear from you to support our We Won't Be Forgotten campaign.
Please comment below with your stories from the last year – trying to keep your answer as short and snappy as possible. Answers will be shared anonymously on Scope’s social media channels to help promote our campaign. This is to support our current action to email your MP our Welfare Guide, and make sure MPs commit to our key changes to improve the welfare system.
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Has a driving licence
Didn't look anxious
Arrived for assessment alone
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I had full flat for life as Addison’s disease is a life long condition especially when you do not have a pituitary gland in your brain, did my PIP assessment and they downgraded me careers allowance as I missed the mobility by 2 points. Even though I use a wheel chair have full time use of 2 specially made crutches and have spine surgery every 12 months. They said that because I could drive to the assessment (in a fully automatic) car, I did not qualify. I am not allowed to use buses or trains as I am 45 and my dr’s have aged my spine around 80 years old. Oh and by the way an ambulance driver did my assessment
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captainrick said:I had full flat for life as Addison’s disease is a life long condition especially when you do not have a pituitary gland in your brain, did my PIP assessment and they downgraded me careers allowance as I missed the mobility by 2 points. Even though I use a wheel chair have full time use of 2 specially made crutches and have spine surgery every 12 months. They said that because I could drive to the assessment (in a fully automatic) car, I did not qualify. I am not allowed to use buses or trains as I am 45 and my dr’s have aged my spine around 80 years old. Oh and by the way an ambulance driver did my assessmentHI and welcome,Carers allowance isn't part of PIP, it's a completely different benefit. Someone can claim carers allowance for looking after you and you must be claiming the daily living part of PIP, not the mobility part.
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Goes to university so must be able to get dressed
Didn't sound anxious
Was able to remember what is wrong with me
Doesnt have any diagnosis of learning difficulties (I was applying based on my mobility and anxiety)
Doesnt always takes meds so pain mustn't be bad (I need prompting to take my meds and I made that clear haha)
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A bit off topic but I was told “you claimed to have difficulty moving around but were found to have adequate upper and lower limb function”.
I never claimed to have difficulty moving around..?
(I still got my PIP on the correct mental health grounds that I was applying on though after MR.)
I think this is kind of relevant as it shows someone somewhere perhaps didn’t read or listen to something properly.
PS came across this looking for reptile pictures but none in here -
The PIP assessors seam to put down the same comments for everyone .. whatever their disability, we don't all fit into the little boxes they base the questions on!
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66Mustang said:A bit off topic but I was told “you claimed to have difficulty moving around but were found to have adequate upper and lower limb function”.
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OverlyAnxious said:Has a driving licence
Didn't look anxious
Arrived for assessment alone -
I had eye contact
I could walk into the room with a walking stick...(I was slowly hobbling in!)
I could get up and sit down...(with the help of my walking stick and the arm of the chair)
Based on the above,I could walk over 200mtrs repeatedly
I could talk in sentences
I could focus on the questions being asked of me!What was I supposed to do focus on what was out the window?
There was a lot more they wrote which was untrue as well.
Unbelievable how they get away with writing these lies.
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I have to admit that when my change from DLA to PIP was done the assessment was both fair and reasonable and I ended up getting £40 per week more, thats not to say that when my review is done it will be all plain sailing it might it might not.
However it should be noted that we read a lot on the internet about bad decisions and less about good ones and yet there are far more good than bad overall.
PIP isn't perfect but too many people fail to realise that it is different than DLA.
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I have kidney failure and attend hospital 3 times a week 4 hours a time for dialysis I struggle to do day to day activity. They rejected my PIP and told me am fine on the days I don’t do dialysis ?♂️
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Assessment by phone, assessor wrote different answers to the ones I gave, she also knew nothing about cluster headaches, decided as I don't have them for 4 to 5 months of the year that it over rides the minimum 7 months that I have them daily, plus hemicrania on top every single day.
Basically she lied, when I asked for it to be looked at again they took away the small amount of money I had been awarded, out of pure spite imo, for challenging them.
And now I have cancer which will take me out they are probably high fiving each other for the extra stress and poverty they have caused me. They are pure evil. Thats why so many are put through this hell. -
Worth reiterating that the job of the HCP is not to repeat what you say but to make an independent assessment of all the evidence having heard what you say. Not the same thing and certainly not evidence of lying.
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@PatchG have you re-applied for pip under special rules? I really doubt that anyone at the DWP has been high fiving anyone.
https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/support/benefits-entitlements/living-with-terminal-illness/personal-independence-payment
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mikehughescq said:Worth reiterating that the job of the HCP is not to repeat what you say but to make an independent assessment of all the evidence having heard what you say. Not the same thing and certainly not evidence of lying.
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woodbine said:@PatchG have you re-applied for pip under special rules? I really doubt that anyone at the DWP has been high fiving anyone.
https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/support/benefits-entitlements/living-with-terminal-illness/personal-independence-payment
I don't know time scale as I instructed oncologist to not tell me, I can't cope with knowing it. It's hard enough trying not to count down passing days, so I will get nothing basically ?
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