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Some decisions are overturned at MR stage, but the success rate is low. This success rate goes up at Tribunal.

If you cannot do an activity reliably, repeatedly, safely and in a timely manner for more than half the time, then you should be treated as unable to do the activity at all.

People do work and receive LCWRA it is possible 🙂

Not necessarily, but I would recommend focusing in on that relevant descriptor to illustrate why you qualify for LCWRA, despite working.

Definitely include all the errors and contradictions because that is evidence that the standard of the assessment was poor.

Hi solly1902, to answer your latest question first: yes, that is completely normal. With an MR, the decision maker does not usually contact you to ask for more evidence. They review what is already on file, mainly the UC85 report, your UC50, and whatever you included in your MR request. So rather than waiting to be asked, send them everything yourself.

A few things that tend to strengthen a case like yours:

1. Structure your MR as a point-by-point rebuttal. For each error in the UC85, note the page or section, quote what the assessor wrote, and set it against what the evidence actually shows. The contradiction you spotted (carer visiting 6 days a week to help with cooking, cleaning, shopping and dressing, versus the summary calling you fully "self-caring and independent") is very powerful. Quote both passages side by side so the decision maker cannot miss it.

2. Send your journal entries as evidence. The clarification you logged on the afternoon of the assessment is timestamped proof that the 200m walk was an isolated good day. Screenshot or print those journal entries and attach them to your MR, pointing to the exact date and time.

3. Build everything around the reliability test Kimi87 mentioned: safely, repeatedly, in a reasonable time, and on more than half the days. For the 50-metre mobilising descriptor, describe a normal day in plain terms: how far you actually manage, when the pain forces you to stop, how long you have to rest, and what a "good day" costs you afterwards. That directly answers the assessor's reliance on the single 200m walk.

4. Address the driving head on. Working 14 hours a week does not disqualify you, and plenty of people receive LCWRA while working part time. Explain the difference between your minibus shifts (seated, with breaks you can control, done out of financial necessity) and sustained work: the drowsiness from your medication, the pain after shifts, and your neurosurgeon's warning about prolonged sitting. Coping with a short shift out of necessity is not the same as being able to work reliably day after day.

5. Ask your neurosurgeon or GP for a short letter written in reliability language: not just the diagnosis, but a statement that you cannot mobilise 50 metres repeatedly and reliably, and cannot sustain the activity without significant pain and recovery time. One paragraph written that way can carry a lot of weight.

6. Keep the tribunal clock in mind. MR decisions can take several weeks or even months, and most are not changed. You get one calendar month from the date of the MR decision notice to lodge an appeal, so note that date the moment the notice arrives and be ready to move quickly.

As a parent of a little one myself, I know how much energy this process eats when you are already running on empty. You have already done the hard part by keeping a paper trail. Put it all in front of the decision maker in one organised submission and make them deal with it. Best of luck with the MR.