Pip

Snap I am going through this right now and I am persevering but it is a horrible experience stressful and exhausting

Hi milly, i completely agree with you. my application for pip was also refused due to the assessor lying.. not just bending the truth but a blatent lie, i challenged it and on mandatory reconsideration i won. you have to fight them no matter how much stress it is.. i know it's hard but no one else will stand up for you so you have to just dig deep and believe in yourself.

I hope you get yours backdated from when they told you you're eligible.

Good luck!.

Gill

x

Congrats milly and hats off to you for your persistence.  I was told when I applied that if awarded the claim is backdated and if your application is refused but you win in appeal the claim is taken from the date of your original application.

the CAB helped me complete my application but I was then duped into attending the atos meeting believing I was going for treatment.  Wasn't expecting it to be at a rehab unit!  Even so, as they had everything with my application the so called 'professional assessor' still wanted me to impersonate a chicken.  Some weeks later I received the letter confirming it had been awarded at the lower rate even though CAB had calculated me at the higher rate.  I didn't appeal as I was grateful for anything that helped towards the extreme expense of being ill.  Moving on I have now been told that my condition us permanent and I struggle to adjust in finding ways round things but I'm getting there.  I have also been told if I appeal I could lose the award I have which makes no sense but it's enough to make me leave well alone.

ive also been told I need my kitchen and bathroom altered and that grants are available for up to £30,000 to help with this but unless a paper pusher rubber stamps your need the dr, surgeon, physio and pain managements opinion means nothing.

rant over.  I'm having a bad painful day and my optimistic bubble is a little deflated.

Hi Milly

you did well to persevere with your PIP, and I'm glad it worked out for you. I did the same and went to tribunal and they backdated it all the way to my initial claim so I would have thought that you should get it being they have admitted that this is and was your condition from your claim.

The tribunal awarded me PIP for a year, which as it had taken so long to get to the tribunal was up a couple of weeks after they awarded it to me, so I then had to make a new claim and have an assessment, it all seems mad to me and the stress of it is unbelievable. I am still waiting to hear, but I hope all goes well with you.

 

Thank you everyone,it's not been easy and not over yet.but the Atos people lie,are rude and fabricate things,they should not be allowed to get away with the treatment of us..I'm writing back in reply to her being examined and her reply which had even more lies....I'm so pleased I took someone bwith me to back me up.wish it was all over and done with x

Yes! I put going for my PIP appeal process and all that goes with it, as one of the worst days of my life, I had a welfare officer with me and she was about useful as a fart in a lift. Lol

i had to have my appeal adjourned so that my doctors letters can be obtained, which the so called welfare officer had forgot to mention, or even get on my behalf. I was offered lowest grade of pip, then I took a stroke, and all the symptoms that came with that made me re appeal, which they then took my mobility away all together. I was furious, I know of friends, neighbours, and family who get the highest rates and I can assure you I'm in a much more chronic and problamatic health condition. I had to get Valium to go to the first appeal. After that day I completely lost it, my doctor had to up my ant depressants to highest dose.

i have a new date now for 2nd March, I've read all my doctors notes, surreal but no doubt they will twist that as well☹️

Well I have just got  my copy of the assessors report. Evidently she did not submit the correct paperwork and do not say I wa sin asking when she arrived and did not say my son had

s to cut up my meat etc. So they will be getting a phone call on Monday. We have all got to stand up for our rights against these bullies

I meant she did not say I was in  a Sling when the assessor arrived at my house 

Hi pip so sorry to hear the trouble you have gone through from what I know you should be backdated all the money your owed I'm still at moment on DLA haven't gone over to pip yet and not looking forward to it sending all my love to you xx