No points on pip f2f interview

Hi,

Sorry to hear your assessment report came back 0 points. I noticed you said they phoned you the day before to attend an assessment following day. I know it's late now but just for the future; you didn't have to agree with that assessment arrangement. Legally , they should have given you a 7 days notice. They can't make you go to the assessment in short notice like this. I know this rule for sure from benefits and works website. (It's unfortunately happening to lot of people but like yourself ; many people are not aware of this and I wasn't either).

Others gave excellent information. You can only decide what you would like to do. Mandatory reconsiderations have low success rate. This shouldnt put you off appealing. Appeal success at courts rates are much higher.

Best of luck to you .

Margaret, sadly the assessors who do the interviews appear to be very nice but they are just trying to get a bonus for refusing PIP.  I had an assessment after being diagnosed with Fibromyalgia 7 years ago and mor erecently HNPP but I still got NIL points in my assessment and again when I submitted a reconsideration. I have had a letter to go to court on January 23 for my appeal but I am so worried that they will again ignore my pain and weakness and make out I am making it up. If only they could live a day in my shoes

 I hope you are sucessful in your appeal, get as much medical evidence and support that you can ! 

I am in the same boat scored nil on PIP assessment three  months ago and I am appalled at what I have uncovered since then about this whole proccess and the vast amount of money it is costing the tax payer .I have been researching and asking the DWP questions under the freedom of information act .What I have found is confusion overstending complete lack of consideration of claiments .To achieve what the goverment set out to do .I would have stayed with the old system taking medical advice from the claiments own doctors specialists and hospital consultants but employed more fraud officers in the DWP to target the people abusing the system .Three months on my medical condition has deterioted I am 64 .At age 60 my health condition was such to entitle me to DLA .I am awating a decision from DWP after asking for a mandertory reconsideration .which I have no doubt will be refused and will have to go to a tribunal .Meanwhile my income has more than halved and caused me to be in debt I am to ill to work  .I can understand that some people have committed suicide as you are made to feel less than nothing but would advice anybody to keep asking questions of the DWP and the goverment .There is a site called what do they know which is very useful

It's awful. They said I was out all day and I'm home 90% of the time.I feel for you.its so not right all of this.hope you get it sorted

Reading all this upsets me.Margaret I went through hell too.my speech went.it's cruel what this government do.I didn't vote for them.I'm still worn out.this pip is not working.it's harming people who are genuinely I'll. Good luck.you are in my prayers

Since posting this my doctor has provided a supporting letter and I have had a meeting with my local cab. I will be appealing the decision. The dwp need to look at how these decisions are affecting people.

Have found through my research something that bothers me and it is the number of people making money from this .for a fee they will help you with your claim from the beginning up to appeal  and if you win they take a percentage of the backdated benefit {Talk about jumping on the band wagon } this surely is an indication that something is terrably wrong .I have been asking the DWP questions via the freedom of information .there is a site you can join to make this easy to do .so I have been asking on average two questions a week .EG asked this week Could the DWP tell me {since the introduction of PIP assessments in 2013 how many posthumous appeals have there been and the results of same } Have also asked the dwp how many claims have been allowed at mandatory reconsideration stage when pip assessment scored nil points since 2013 also number of appeals in favour of claimant who scored nil points at assessment .Waiting for reply .IF you are interestedthe site is What do they know .I am 65 and unfortunatly ill with no savings as I have bought up two children on my own supported them throught uni paid my morgage so they would always have a roof over there head .Just some background .I  claimed DLA at age 60 middle rate living lower rate mobility Had a pip assessment scored nil had benefit stopped had  to cancel all my insurance house and life as I can no longer afford this and would have been overdrawn at the bank .This is the bottom line most people having benefit stopped become impoverished .Most disturbing is the deceit eg when the assessor asks you how you got to the centre and do you need to use the lift { they deliberatly do not have the assessments on the ground floor } a seemingly innocuous questions  but they can use your answer in thier  assessment without you being aware of this .I have asked the DWP if they are duplicitous in this ,waiting for reply .Margaret can you remember if your assesser asked you what you would be doing for the rest ofthe day mine did and I told her I wasn so tired and drained that I would be going to bed when I got home .She didnt include this but said that I could plan a rout because I turned up for the assessment I am waiting for my appeal date which could be months away in the meantime my general health has declined because of the stress Which I think from most posts online has affected most people in the same way .I have come to the belief that this system is easy for the fraudant claimants as they know how to work the system when they know no medical evidence from the GP or consultants will be asked for simply because of the cost .Before 2013 the goverment were hoping to save 0.4 billion over three years by stopping benefits to date it has cost in administration cost of assessments cost of appeals  increase in DWP people around 2 billion to the end of 2016 .DWP have themselves predicted that the cost of assessments will quadruple between 2016/2018 .Non of this will help my appeal but I wanted to vent .You have to pick to pieses the assessment try to remember everything you said that does not appear and you need to call into question what the assesser has written .Good luck