Hi, my name is hooty81! Anyone else upset by PIP assessment and report?

hooty81
hooty81 Community member Posts: 7 Listener
edited August 2021 in PIP, DLA, and AA
Hi

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  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Hello @hooty81

    Welcome to the community, how are you? 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community member Posts: 16,331 Championing
    Hi @hooty81 - & welcome to this friendly & supportive community. I hope you are keeping well. Please join in with any discussions of interest, & let us know if you have any questions. :)
  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Community member Posts: 7,879 Championing
    Welcome to the community @hooty81 :)
  • hooty81
    hooty81 Community member Posts: 7 Listener
    Hi I’m quite upset, regarding my pip assessor report, I suffer from fibromyalgia and OA and wondering if anyone else has had a difficult experience regarding pip assessments? 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community member Posts: 16,331 Championing
    Hi @hooty81 - & thank you for replying with your query. Sadly many of our members have felt just as upset over their assessment reports. You still have to wait for your decision letter, as your assessment is only part of the evidence you sent such as your initial claim form.
    What we unfortunately see is that it's not always understood what PIP is about, so, rather than being about your diagnoses, it's how these affect you looking at certain activities/descriptors of daily living &/mobility. So for now, try & forget your assessment report, & if your decision letter isn't perhaps as you'd hoped, you can always ask for the decision to be looked at again by another decision maker by asking for a Mandatory Reconsideration.
    Please let us know how you get on, as our members will be able to advise further (if needed). :)
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,443 Championing
    Welcome to the community @hooty81 :) I'm also sorry to hear that you're upset about your PIP assessment and report. As chiarieds has said, you're not the only one to feel this way. 

    Have you received your decision letter yet? Would you mind sharing a little more around what about the report and assessment you found upsetting? This may help us to give you some advice and support, or point you in the right direction. 
  • hughiemachrins
    hughiemachrins Community member Posts: 75 Contributor
    This will probably go against most advice you will get on here but if there are problems with the report, write to the DWP and tell them that. Use real world instances and tell them how your daily life is affected. You can also mention where you thought the report was wrong. I did this and a report giving 6 DL and 0 Mob turned into a decision letter with 8 DL and 10 Mobility. The decision maker said it was based on my letter and that what I said went along with the medical evidence.
  • hooty81
    hooty81 Community member Posts: 7 Listener
    Thankyou for the advice, I’ve written a complaint in regard to the assessor as she’s has written false statements and compared me having physio that I have help with to the fact that I can drive for 10 minutes, also because I said I can do the school run which is a 5 min drive but can’t walk no more than 20m at a time she has added this up so I can walk 200m, just the representation of it all really upset me 
  • hooty81
    hooty81 Community member Posts: 7 Listener
    I haven’t had my decision letter yet but I asked for the pop assessment report and it came the next day, not sure if I should put in the complaint before the decision or wait till after? Any advice on this would be great? 
  • hughiemachrins
    hughiemachrins Community member Posts: 75 Contributor
    I would put it in now. I don't think you can lose by it. Either they accept it and you get PIP or they don't and you go to MR. Personally I don't see a down side.

  • hooty81
    hooty81 Community member Posts: 7 Listener
    That’s what I was thinking, it’s already written, I’ve already called DWP and said that I was putting in a complaint 
  • calcotti
    calcotti Community member Posts: 10,005 Championing
    edited August 2021
    If you want to make a complaint About the assessment process that would be made to the assessment provider.
    if you disagree with the report and want to express that disagreement to the DWP with the intention of having them take your comments into account when making the decision, that is not a complaint.
  • hooty81
    hooty81 Community member Posts: 7 Listener
    My complaint is with the assessor and I’ve been given a complaint form to fill in, I called DWP to inform them of my intentions so they could make a record of it. I don’t want the DWP to remove the comments I want the assessor to do that. 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community member Posts: 59,054 Championing
    The assessment report is not meant to be written word for word with what you said. If this happened then there would be no point in having these assessments. The report is the HCP's opinion on everything, which includes the PIP2 form, your evidence and the assessment.

    The report makes up part of the evidence used to make a decision.
  • calcotti
    calcotti Community member Posts: 10,005 Championing
    hooty81 said:
    My complaint is with the assessor and I’ve been given a complaint form to fill in, I called DWP to inform them of my intentions so they could make a record of it. I don’t want the DWP to remove the comments I want the assessor to do that. 
    Making a complaint about the assessor is not going to help you get a PIP award. If you want DWP to take into account extra comments from you to clarify things the assessor has misunderstood you need to put this in writing to DWP.
  • hooty81
    hooty81 Community member Posts: 7 Listener
    Ok Thankyou