Personal independence payments

Hi Stacey,, your story is the same as mine,, I'm in support group for ESA and that's

All fine,, however in 2014 I was severely bullied at work,, I'd been there 25 yes so hit me hard

Had pip ass and was awarded high rate daily living n mobility,, in sept I went for pip review

I was totally distraught as I don't leave house,,, I had a young man do ass n like you was there about

20mins,,, well when I got report ,, it was all lies ,, he said I go shopping etc I do hovering n house work,

omg it went on n on,, I asked for mandatory reconsideration n sent of

Therapists report ,care plan etc etc, waited 8 wks to get back a NO,,

thing is I still have therapy twice a WK, once at home n once at hospital

I have artirtus and odema and my Dr wrote to say I have limited mobility,

What I did get on ESA is standard living allowance just because I use a frame in the toilet,, the man

Said I was incontinent LOL,, don't wait write a letter explaining why you feel the report is wrong n ask for

Mandatory reconsideration ,, n I hope you have better luck than I did

But I did get s l awarded for 3 years so I guess that's better than nothing.

I know someone who is like me not as bad ,,she goes out ,, cooks,, socialises,,

Runs a club,, BUT lives in a different award area n she got a home visit

n within 2 wks got n award of high rate D L and S R mobility,

Get on with writing your letter n I wish you all the best,

Take care big hug ,,, Jayne x

Don't know.  But i've just asked why the decision is taking soo long and found out that although they received the assessor's report, someone at ATOS had not pressed a button so the DWP can't work with it.

Did you record the assessment?  Too late now if not but worth doing in future if you're assessed again.  If you did it might help you with challenging the quality of the report.

Without knowing more about how you completed the form and what the problems were with the assessment and the report it's hard to advise you.  In some cases it might be better to start a new claim, in other cases it's worth going for an MR and appeal if necessary.  If the assessor goes along with the report will you get any award?

You're clearly very unhappy with the length of the assessment and the report so it is worth putting in a complaint to Capita.  They may look at it and agree it wasn't up to standard.  I'm not sure what happens in these cases but it might be that you'd have to go to another assessment.

For your claim, if you think it's worth continuing with this claim and that you should get an award you should start trying to get more evidence.  This could be from people involved in your care, friends or family who provide you with a lot of help.  Anything to counter the reasons given on your report for not awarding points that you believe you should have got.  Add to this your own opinion of how the assessor has misinterpreted what you said (they never lie!!).  Send this to the DWP now, or with a MR letter if you've already had your award letter from the DWP.

If you're happy to give us specific comments from your report we might be able to help more.  A lot of the comments are taken from drop down boxes so would be unlikely to identify you but I understand if you don't want to give more specific information.

Hi Stacey yes you can ask for an MR which is a mandatory review, I'm sorry to say though that they are getting higher and higher criteria for PIP compared to DLA, to get enhanced mobility you need to be unable to walk under 20 metres also I personally know people who are quite physically disabled and have still been refused it.

Where did you have your assessment, if you had it at one of the offices then I think you will find it was recorded, what did they day about you that was untrue, also have you plenty of paper evidence to support your claim

Hi Stacey, a similar thing happened to me, where the person fabricated everything I said, for example, I was in crutches, wearing a boot, and at the examination he said ' obviously you cant bend down, so I wont ask you to' but in the report had said that I bent down and lifted a coin off the floor!! I went straight to my local MP and within 2 days I had a telephone call from the supervisor appologising! Good luck, they dont seem to realise the stress this puts on people!

Hi everyone after some advice please.

I've put in for a mandatory reconsideration on my pip claim.

I called the dwp Wednesday for an update on what's happening.

I was told paper work had been sent to atos because the dm was having trouble making a new decision. They said someone from the benefits team would give me a call within 24h but that's not happened.

Just wondering if anyone knows why atos have been contacted I had my medical with capita but I had an ESA medical with atos a few years back so could they be collecting more information?

Thanks