Had PIP Assessment last Wednesday

rebel11

Update, afternoon post, telling me it's being investigated.

I'm fully focused on the MR, I've speed read, the report, will be concentrating on some anomalies and giving real life examples.  

schoolmum

@rebel11

Well hopefully that will have pleased you that your complaint has been acknowledged but I really do think you are being highly oversensitive about the assessors introduction of himself and as such that may distract you from what you really do need to put your time, effort and knowledge into.

I didn't realise that you had already had your decision on PIP when I commented earlier. I must have missed your post about it or maybe you didn't do a post.

I wish you well in your MR
as I know it must cause a great deal of unwanted stress when you have go go through it all. Hopefully you will concentrate on the evidence and points that need to be made for a successful award.

Regards
Schoolmum

rebel11

schoolmum said:

@rebel11

Well hopefully that will have pleased you that your complaint has been acknowledged but I really do think you are being highly oversensitive about the assessors introduction of himself and as such that may distract you from what you really do need to put your time, effort and knowledge into.

I didn't realise that you had already had your decision on PIP when I commented earlier. I must have missed your post about it or maybe you didn't do a post.

I wish you well in your MR
as I know it must cause a great deal of unwanted stress when you have go go through it all. Hopefully you will concentrate on the evidence and points that need to be made for a successful award.

Regards
Schoolmum

Oversensitive, no, 'I just like to call eggs, eggs'. I didn't post the decision on this thread, so you didn't miss it. It however is posted on another thread, where others posted their decisions. But it's all good, I'm looking forward to doing my MR.     

calcotti

rebel11 said: I'm looking forward to doing my MR.     

That's not a phrase you often see!

rebel11

Would the Assessor ask a different set of questions for Diabetes Type 1 and Diabetes Type 2? They are quite different conditions in their scope.

I'm 100% sure he's asked me questions which are associated with Diabetes Type 1.

rebel11

The Assessor isn't there any more, shame, they can't get more info. 

Have to ring the DWP, probably have to do the MR thing. It's done, just need to go though it, amend etc. 

rebel11

I wrote out my MR, but they told me somebody is already looking at (my letter said I will write to them in due course) it because they've been written to by the Assessment Company, I should of been given some points (unknown at this time), so I've just told them to hold fire on the MR, I want to send in further medical evidence, which I've done. I wanted to do it in writing, but settled for sending in more evidence GP / consultants. But 'cool' about it all.

I got 'zero' points spent quite a bit of time on the MR.   

rebel11

I've now gone from 'Zero' to 'Two' points, disappointing, on to Appeal. 

As Tutankhamen said 'I've built all these Pyramids, surely one will house my 'Mummy'.

Disclaimer - I don't think he actually said that, I just thought of it.  

rebel11

I've lodged my Appeal, see what happens. 

poppy123456

Good luck!

rebel11

poppy123456 said:

Good luck!

Thank you, 9 pages, covering 11 descriptors, definitely more 'examples then on the PIP2.  

We will see, writing it out was 'draining', had to do it in 'chunks'.  

L_Volunteer

Chunking it, certainly, seems like a sensible way to manage the chunkiness of this @rebel11. How are you feeling about everything at the moment?

Hopefully, there are things you can do to take care of yourself especially since it has felt draining.

Please don't hesitate to let us know if there's anything we can do to support you 

rebel11

@L_Volunteer

Thank you.

I think I messed up the Appeal Online, only as far as it allows you to give many reasons, I copy and pasted all the reasons in one go, when I could have done it individually. So it one block of text as the spaces have been missed out by the platform.  I can send it in via post, so will see what the DWP make of it. 

Then go from there.   

rebel11

Just had a call from PIP, said I've got a lot of information on my Pip Appeal, he said 'he is preparing information to send to the Tribunal', he said 'you said you are going to send in more information have you got that now? (misunderstood what he was asking)', I initially said 'no', I said I will send it in, it's for a future appointment for a prolonged condition, i.e. waiting list, etc. I said I will send it in, then explained what it was. He just wanted to end the call. 

Not sure if this is good / bad. Still at least they bothered to call.

poppy123456

When they are looking at your claim to respond to a Tribunal they sometimes ring you to ask if you have any other evidence to send. Future appointment letters aren't always the best evidence to send, it will depend what it's for. (i'm not asking you what it's for)

For evidence, less is very often more so this is worth bearing in mind.

rebel11

poppy123456 said:

When they are looking at your claim to respond to a Tribunal they sometimes ring you to ask if you have any other evidence to send. Future appointment letters aren't always the best evidence to send, it will depend what it's for. (i'm not asking you what it's for)

For evidence, less is very often more so this is worth bearing in mind.

I agree 100%, it's a condition that is prolonged, it's a constant, the Doctor has documented it previously in a letter and post PIP application in a letter, I take stuff for it to help, but I've not received direct intervention for it. 

I'll await the letter from DWP / Appeals, see what their reasons are.      

rebel11

Received the 'Bundle'. The DWP asked for a supplementary information from the assessment company after my complaint (they took 10 minutes to look at my claim again and provided a paragraph in response). My further evidence (reports) was sent after the assessment company looked at the claim again. 

When I Appealed, I set out why the descriptors applied by the assessor were incorrect, 9 pages.

So will highlight the anomalies and send as additional information.  
   

rebel11

Appeal finally sent, 18 pages (as the bundle contained my complaint, I had to address that - 3 pages). See were we go from here.

sonicx2001

janer1967 said:

Hi and welcome 

It was a mistake but that alone doesn't really warrant a complaint in my opinion i would wait and keep them onside 

I agree, he should have said he is working on behalf of the DWP but that's just a technicality and doesn't really warrant taking it any further, in my opinion 

rebel11

sonicx2001 said:

janer1967 said:

Hi and welcome 

It was a mistake but that alone doesn't really warrant a complaint in my opinion i would wait and keep them onside 

I agree, he should have said he is working on behalf of the DWP but that's just a technicality and doesn't really warrant taking it any further, in my opinion 

He did say he works for the DWP, but he doesn't. 

It isn't just a technicality, he no longer works for the assessment company, so someone, somewhere thought it was serious. If anything, I should have done it sooner.