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Hi. I am a PIP Decision Maker (Case Manager). Ask me anything.

I am currently employed as a PIP Case Manager working on new claims. Ask me anything.
All views are my own. Any advice given or information discussed is strictly from personal knowledge and I will not disclose any information that I am not authorised to discuss in the public forum. This is not an official exercise and I am doing this completely out of personal interest. I will absolutely not discuss specifics of individual cases.
All views are my own. Any advice given or information discussed is strictly from personal knowledge and I will not disclose any information that I am not authorised to discuss in the public forum. This is not an official exercise and I am doing this completely out of personal interest. I will absolutely not discuss specifics of individual cases.
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I'd be interested to know do you read the pip forms or just the assessors report?
And why might a decision maker go against an assessment?
Just had my report through...
Thanks
These are some of the tools available to a CM where a poor quality report is received. Personally, I went into this job as a person raised in poverty with disabled relatives who have struggled with the system and I will always fight for the claimant where I can. Not every CM will and there, imo, lies the issue.
I answered your question on your other thread.
1. Why do you think the appeal rate against PIP decisions is so high? Currently almost 75 percent of all PIP decisions are overturned on appeal, yet the number of decisions overturned on mandatory reconsideration is very low (under 18 percent)
2. Why are so many of the decisions wrong in the first place?
3. Do DWP decision makers have ANY medical training at all?
Hope you pop back, I think more people would probably like to pick your brain...
Eg I for one would like to know can a dim be bought off with a bung of jaffa cakes?
Pineapple ones?
No?