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PIP Mandatory Reconsideration success

Hi everyone, I posted back in December pretty distraught about my enhanced daily and standard mobility pip being reviewed and then assessed as all 0 across every activity thus removing my award entirely.
After 6 weeks of hell and stress, with my partner phoning them every day, speaking to 3 case managers: one marked the case as urgent which appeared to make no difference, the second called us to discuss the MR and this did not make a difference, and finally after more calls for a week and a half and my partner speaking to one very helpful person who got irritated by the previous case managers for not handling the case and arranged a case manager to call for a decision over the phone, he spoke to a third case manager who asked the same questions the health assessor did, I was finally awarded enhanced daily and standard mobility back.
We are on legacy benefits and my partner told me when he spoke to income support that they had said "youre very lucky, most people don't get it back in time to not trigger a move to UC".
I'm waiting for the letter to arrive to see where I've scored points and how long the award is, but if they've given me a short award im tempted to go to tribunal anyway because my difficulties are chronic due to autism, anxiety and pain from Fibromyalgia and aren't likely to change and ive already been receiving pip for 6 years (2 awards, this is my 3rd) at the same rate and I absolutely do not want to go through this hell again in 2 years.
After 6 weeks of hell and stress, with my partner phoning them every day, speaking to 3 case managers: one marked the case as urgent which appeared to make no difference, the second called us to discuss the MR and this did not make a difference, and finally after more calls for a week and a half and my partner speaking to one very helpful person who got irritated by the previous case managers for not handling the case and arranged a case manager to call for a decision over the phone, he spoke to a third case manager who asked the same questions the health assessor did, I was finally awarded enhanced daily and standard mobility back.
We are on legacy benefits and my partner told me when he spoke to income support that they had said "youre very lucky, most people don't get it back in time to not trigger a move to UC".
I'm waiting for the letter to arrive to see where I've scored points and how long the award is, but if they've given me a short award im tempted to go to tribunal anyway because my difficulties are chronic due to autism, anxiety and pain from Fibromyalgia and aren't likely to change and ive already been receiving pip for 6 years (2 awards, this is my 3rd) at the same rate and I absolutely do not want to go through this hell again in 2 years.
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