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Pip review
freckles
Member Posts: 258 Pioneering
All 1.6 million peoples PIP cases to be reviewed this is good news
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freckles Thanks . Trouble is I do not have a copy of my assessment in 2o14 . I only have the decision makers letter and the award enhanced care standard mobility , .scored only 2 point on recent assessment and that was because I had physical proof wearing my hearing aid . Have asked dwp to expand on this and am awaiting reply . The whole process is so stressful if no reconsideration I will not attempt tribunal , my health is suffering already .
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freckles that made me laugh . Are you in the tribunal stage ? or have you now received your award? .Mine is a reconsideration and just hope they take into account the new ruling . I might drop them a line to remind them . my recorded delivery costs are mounting up .
wildlife I'm losing the batlle here . was on DLA , transferred successfully to PIP in June 2014 .higher award. Then in May last year I received a Review form Ar1 ,filled it in never had any reply from DWP. on Dec 4th got Capita letter for face to face assessment. 29/12/17. Got decision letter 7/1/18 saying they have changed the descriptors chosen ? .Also in May last year I was supposed to go for ESA assessment , I missed this but DWP accepted my reasons and I never heard anymore from them . .
• Be an occupational therapist, nurse, physiotherapist, paramedic or doctor • Be fully registered with the relevant licensing body (doctors must have a licence to practise) • Have no sanctions attached to registration unless they relate to disability. In individual cases, this requirement may be wavered subject to prior written agreement with DWP • Have at least 2 years post full registration experience (this refers to either UK registration or equivalent overseas registration for non-UK HPs) or less than 2 years post full registration experience by individual, prior, written agreement with the Department • Have passed a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
I'm getting mixed up as there are now 2 discussions called PIP review. Anyhow ESA and PIP are completely separate so no it shouldn't affect PIP. But who knows what goes on in their minds. ESA has different criteria as it's a work based benefit so what you can and cannot do for PIP shouldn't be compared to your ESA.
thankyou I will check the regiter again to make sure .Tha assessor had a middle name which I omitted so that could be the reason.. Do you know if there are any rules regarding assessors and if they know of the applicant .or vise versa
Wildlife Thankyou once again , I did look up the standards several days ago but could not see anything about if the person is known to assessor etc . bad grammar and spelling . One eg ; assessor wrote reports to have a walking stick that was self brought .? decision maker has said I had no walking stick , is brought not meaning had with me. I have highlighted all spelling errors and my extra feet and legs ....
Am at Cab this morning , Have copied all my emails to Capita regarding my home visit request granted . Plus there was no reason to arrive earlier than planned as he lives close to me . .he could have popped home for a cuppa. It threw me out him being early as was not mentally prepared .I told him he was early he just replied "does it matter, is that a problem" . well to me it was. Do I or should I send the assessors report to DWP showing all errors or will they just dismiss it . ? many thanks
No point in sending the report to DWP as they already have a copy and you will only be wasting your time as they would just refer it back to Capita. It needs to go with your complaint. Your claim and the complaint about the assessment and report are 2 separate things and need to be seen that way to have the best chance of changing your award. The only connection is to let DWP know you've complained which you've already done. The assessor being early should be part of your complaint. Explain what effect this had on you. All the errors in your report go against the DWP guidelines which say it should be in clear English using as few words as possible and of course factually correct which it is not.
wildlife you are more informative than my CAB helper . Thankyou . I will keep the Assessors report discrepancies out of the MR and save them for when CAPITA reply further, ( they said 20 days to investigate the complaint.) One piece of information I have not sent to DWP is the actual score/ scores I believe I should have received ., as I did not think it would have any bearing on the MR decision .They do have a full list of reasons as to why I disagree .
Same process same procedure,
Just got through it with PIP, now waiting for the next '!!!
maid08 update ; my assessor is now on the register ( newly registered ) , So maybe he was fresh out of training when he assessed me,.either way he was ill equipt . I did ask about Capita about a same sex assessor but was told only allowed on religious or cultural reasons , Surely this is discrimination .
I watched the debate in Parliament on Thursday which was well intentioned but quickly descended into the usual meaningless waffle, much of it, as the Speaker noted, overlong. The strident claim that spending of the disabled had increased by £7 billion in the last 10 years was the Tory Ace card.
Sadly this is not a record the Government should be in any way proud of. Rather it shames both them and us.
PiP was flawed from the start. The intention was to reduce the number of long term DLA mobility by 20% saving over £2 billion. This was achieved with more than 50000 people with physical disabilities losing the right to Motability as a result. Leaving aside the question of whether this made any sense since those with limikted walking ability were the most likely to be in employment, PiP was further complicated by a clumsy and misguided attempt to treat Physical and Mental disabilities as one and the same. They are not!
That the Government totally miscalculated the effect this would have on spending is best illustrated by the urgent changes they attempted to bring in to restrict claims based on certain mental illnesses. The Courts ruled these changes illegal and costs kept rising as a result.
The result is what we see every day. The DWP under pressure to curb the increasing costs putting pressure on the assessors to use any means to slow down the entire claims process.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul seemed like a good idea at he time. Unfortunately the needs of Paul vastly exceded the amount robbed from Peter. And the foot dragging by the DWP and their minions is making a bad situation worse. Some claimants, myself included, have ended up with more benefits than we wanted or needed in cash terms but not the help we wanted. Some might well accept the extra payment but others are not getting the help they are entitled to.