P I P ASSESSMENT AND ESA ASSESSMENT

There are differences in the ESA and PIP Application forms, but you also have to watch out for the questions that will give you "0" points. These differ between both forms, hence why many people cannot understand why get "0", or is even possible, the answer is yes and you could even write additional notes to those questions, and still receive zero points, they are there to trap you.

Now, it would be easy for you and them to do both together, however it does not work that way for a reason.

ATOS are not the only company that do Assessments, there is another called Capita. Both do the same but Capita are known to be better than ATOS doing assessments,. ESA are not always done by ATOS or Capita.

It was Capita's idea to let Claimants record their Assessments, but this was turned down by the DWP. ATOS are crafty, you can record your assessment if they do yours, providing you create a copy of it at the same time for them!! Many people now are just photocopying all documents and recording the assessments but not informing the Assessor unless they have major discrepancies between what they were asked and the letter they receive. People are now phoning the DWP asking why there are so many discrepancies and that they recorded the actual assessment to prove it. This normally causes the decision to be changed, within a few days.

It would be nice to say it should not be this way, but the DWP does use many "dirty tricks", mainly to get rid of claimants in hope they will not appeal, which just takes up more time. Did you know if a person can deny an ESA Claim, they receive an £80 bonus?? This is why there is so much going on, to cover up "Benefit related" deaths, that report was ready for publication in February 2015, the Tories held it back and said it will be available after the Electrion, and still to this day no one has seen it even though the public are demanding the release and a document was submitted to No.10 containing over 1/2 million signatures!!

Regards,

Les.