How is the MR undertaken?

LeeA380

The whole point of my MR was that I was 2 pts away from receiving a benefit threshold, and I believe they wrongly presumed I needed 0pts on a particular question, hence the need for a re-look.

Is the MR effectively a new assessment, or will they just look to see if they can add the 2pts on for the highlighted question?

Because if it is a new assessment, I could get 2pts for the question I needed, but on another question I could now score 0pts, which is worse than the original result.

janer1967

The whole coaim will be looked at again by a different decision maker 

All your evidence,  your application the assessment report etc 

rubin16

With an MR is goes to another DM (Decision Maker) to look at your assessment and evidence and make a decision again, Its worth doing another letter with an MR going through the descriptors and writing down how you struggle with each task in detail with examples, also getting witness statements from family members and friends who see you struggle doing the tasks. Just remember to write your name and NI number on top of each letter.

Like mike says most decision makers go with the assessment report and its a 50/50chance of success. But its worth doing if you believe you should be scoring more points but as its another decision maker you could score more or less than last time. But most will just go with the assessment report and the points recommended on there unless you absolutley prove otherwise.

calcotti

rubinheath16 said:

But most will just go with the assessment report and the points recommended on there unless you absolutley prove otherwise.

I think ‘absolutely prove’ is overstating it. However the DM does need reason to think the assessment report is not full picture.

Emilyb81

So just to be clear do you mean you are concerned that if they look at the whole thing again they might look at another question (you agreed with score on) where you previously scored higher than 2 points and decide it was wrong and take away more than 2 points therefore leaving you with less overall?

LeeA380

Emilyb81 said:

So just to be clear do you mean you are concerned that if they look at the whole thing again they might look at another question (you agreed with score on) where you previously scored higher than 2 points and decide it was wrong and take away more than 2 points therefore leaving you with less overall?

Yes, thats what I was worrying about.