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Appeal date recieved after a year. Drowning in paperwork and in the verge of giving up. Please help!
nikkif
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After a year of feeling organised I'm now terrified of what's going to happen at appeal. I was awarded lower care component but appealed due to the fact that many facts were omitted from assessment and because my illness is very rare and not fully understood I dont feel that the ramifications and the problems it brings my life and being able to complete the activities either reliably or safely were taken into account by the nurse who assessed me. However I am now becoming more and more fearful of tribunal and losing the award I was given and want to make sure i have all the relevant evidence and answers but i feel like I'm drowning in the paper work and going into meltdown. I'm on the verge of giving up all together. Can anyone give me an idea if what happens at appeal. Ive read all the guidelines but a real account can be so much more helpful. Can I prepare a statement so I ensure I've included everything I think relevant?? I'm so so worried. Thank you.
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The majority of appeals are successful. Make sure you attend. Your appeal letter can be as lengthy as you need it to be. Include everything in relation to your condition and how the decision of the DWP is detrimental to it. Be honest and omit nothing and you should be successful. Also request they look at exceptional circumstances in your case.
Do you have anyone helping you @nikkif ? you would probably benefit from someone advising you on what to do face to face.
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so good luck, there is light at the end of the tunnel, it's just a long journey which some of us have to travel on mostly on our own, but others are on the same tracks / and path, unloved and unwanted by the DWP lack of respect or care, but we do it, to prove a point, they are wrong, and we alive are still strong, if only in mind and maybe not in body,...
As you are already drowning in paperwork I could not recommend the approach suggested by @zakblood as this will likely double the amount of paperwork in your appeal bundle and potentially make it harder for a tribunal to drill down to the fundamental issues in your case and for you to follow what’s going on. As they also observe, their tribunal had made their mind up the assessment was wrong before they opened their mouth, which wholly contradicts the idea of having to rip it apart yourself and emphasises a very important couple of points. That in the case of most tribunals
a) you’re kicking at an open door as regards the quality of the assessment - you don’t need to pull it apart line by line. Indeed you'll have a very fed up tribunal if you do.
b) pulling the report apart will not get you PIP. One does not lead to the other. You need to identify the points you ought to score; explain why; give two examples per points scoring activity and so on. That’s what will get you PIP.
Extra medical evidence is generally about diagnosis, symptoms, prognosis and treatment. These things are rarely in dispute. What’s usually on dispute are the consequences of your condition.You’ve already said yourself that you feel this didn’t get recorded properly. That’s the argument you now need to put in. Which points? For what? Why? Examples.