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Refused assessment report

dottie_dotdottie_dot Member Posts: 3 Listener
edited October 2018 in PIP, DLA and AA
Was wondering if anyone else had been refused there assessors report ..just phoned the dwp asking for a copy to be sent and they said they couldn't send it until a decision  had been made. When I asked  why he said they can't send it out anymore . I'm  sure iv read other people got it before there decision had been made . 
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  • Ami2301Ami2301 Community Co-Production Group Posts: 7,912 Disability Gamechanger
    Hi @dottie_dot
    Welcome to the community! I am unsure however other members of the community may know and will be in contact soon :)
    Disability Gamechanger - 2019
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  • WaylayWaylay Member Posts: 960 Pioneering
    In NI they won't send it out until the decision is made, but in the rest of the UK they've been sending them out when people ask for them (well, usually). Could be a new thing, but the person you talked to might not know what they're talking about. DWP telephony agents get it wrong a LOT. Call back and speak to someone else?
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  • poppy123456poppy123456 Member Posts: 23,192 Disability Gamechanger
    Hi,

    If you live in the UK just ring them back, chances are you'll speak to someone totally different who will agree to send it out to you.
    Proud winner of the 2019 empowering others award. This award was given for supporting disabled people and their families for the benefit advice I have given to members here on the community.
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  • dottie_dotdottie_dot Member Posts: 3 Listener
    Thanks..I'll  do that in a couple of days..don't want to be a pest .he did say on the phone it was a new thing but was he just fobbing me off 
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  • poppy123456poppy123456 Member Posts: 23,192 Disability Gamechanger
    It's not a new thing, you do get some people from DWP refusing to send it out...when they say this, you know they're indeed fobbing you off.
    Proud winner of the 2019 empowering others award. This award was given for supporting disabled people and their families for the benefit advice I have given to members here on the community.
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  • sarah50sarah50 Member Posts: 119 Pioneering
    Don't worry about being a pest, phone them back, it's a report that has been written about you and you are entitled to see what has been written about you. I'm sure dwp are inventing their own internal policies just to be flipping awkward!
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  • SaracenSaracen Member Posts: 66 Courageous
    Hi dottie
    Sorry to hear u r having trouble getting your report have a look here under the freedom of information act I dont know about ireland but according to this in the uk they cant refuse I believe.
    https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pip_pa4_assessment_report_form
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  • dottie_dotdottie_dot Member Posts: 3 Listener
    Hi. Just a update..phoned up this morning  asking for a copy of my face to face assessment report and the lady on the phone said yes I will send it out today..she checked and said they hadn't received  it back from ASOS yet but would post it out once they have received it. 
     Let's see if they do .
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