it seems the disabled are taking the brunt of government under funding-if your rich why worry about little things like the extra cost of being disabled
thanks for reply
That's a good idea I got my wife's prescription list printed off by the GP and sent that when sent the for in also when you get repeat prescriptions you always get it attached I sent that in to .
Sorry meant to say when I sent form in when applying I have also got more that come attached to the prescription I will show when the assessor comes
They said she walk to top of garden and back 60 metres but our garden is about 15 yards which is 5 meteres also she could walk 200 metres-my wife has servere caudisation which makes any walking painful thanks for reply
yeah that may be ok, my assessor said i culd easily bend to stroke my cat from my sofa but then said i could easily sit and stand from my LOW sofa. so i asked them why would i need to bend to stroke my cat from my sofa if it's low and sent in a picture of my stroking my cat not having to bend. so contridictory.
anyway photo evidence is good.
Good luck.
The rules are that you can be retested at any point in the 12 months before the award runs out.
You are not giving the DWP enough credit.
ANY PIP award can be re-visted by the DWP at ANY TIME throughout the award period for any reason.
You WILL be re-assessed for a timed award 12 months BEFORE the award is to cease in any event. If the decision to revise the award based on this re-assessment up or down - it will start from when that decision is made and NOT from when the timed award should finish.
They already have!
They and those claiming JSA/ESA are seen by the government as a soft target because they are judged by the rest to be lazy scoundels, happy to live on benefits that in some cases equates to more than the average full time worker brings home in wages.
There is not that much sympathy from the general public for benefit claimants hence why the government can and have got away with hitting them the hardest.
I would be very careful in saying any of that to the assessor.
The burden of proving your allegations rests on you.
Besides which the face to face assessment report is nothing more than the opinion of one person. Your statement of difficulties contained in the PIP2 form is also the opinion of one person - you.
You will say that what you claim is the truth as would the assessor.
You must differentiate between an opinion and a fact. What you write and what the assessor writes are NOT facts - just simply two opinions.
It's all a question of which statement is more likely than not to be true.
Because you are making a claim for money - hence why you sign the application form as true to the best of your belief and ability.
It is quite common for assessors to quote 60 metres. They used to quote more than 50 metres when being assessed for DLA.
The extra 10 metres is nothing more than a regular ploy to ensure that you are not awarded the 'up to 50 metres' rate of PIP.
As I have said it is their opinion - on appeal you will have to prove that their opinion is wrong and exaggerated.
Looking at it another way, under DLA everyone knew that a distance of up to 50 metres would give you High Mobility.- so claimants tended to say that 50 metres was their limit.
Yet after PIP came in and the 20 metre rule came in to get enhanced mobility those that had previously claimed that is was 50 metres must have suffered a considerable deterioration in mobility as they are now claiming that the maximum is 20 metres that they can walk. I suppose that if the government reduced it further to say 5 metres to get enhanced people would be arguing that 5 is the maximum that they can now walk.
I have no idea how you can even measure the distance - I have awful difficulties in getting around yet if someone asked me what was the distance I could manage I would not have a clue as I don't go around with a tape measure everytime I go out.
Hi Les where did you get this from ?
which bit?
I would say most people know how far they can walk etc as in my wife's case she gets pain when standing within seconds but then again she also gets pain sitting so can't go on long journeys with alot of pain killers first so to say you don't know how far you can manage hmmmm maybe that's why you never get your allowance easy and always fight for it ..looking at most of your posts
I'll take that onboard. The next time I see someone struggling to walk with someone at their side with a tape measure, I'll know that they must be looking to claim PIP!
Seriously I couldn't tell you how far it is from the back door to the car on the drive, nor how far it is from the front door to the end of the drive. I couldn't even tell you how long my car is or how long my back garden is.
I can estimate it, but I could be way out with the true measurement.
Someone once told me that a good sride for a man is about 1 metre. That's OK if you can walk like that - pity those like myself that do a shuffle, to start with that progresses to a short step then into a waddle much akin a penguin.
I honestly cannot believe that someone who is suffering such difficulties when walking is going to actually measure from when they set off to when they had to stop due to severe pain. Likewise who actually has a stop watch to measure how many seconds elapse before pain sets in?
That reminds me that at one DLA face to face I was asked how far could I walk. My answer was - I have no idea!
In the report it suggested that I could not walk more than 50 metres. How the assessor came to that conclusion I don't know. Maybe the distance from the waiting room to the chair in the assessing room had been carefully measured at less that 50 metres?
It's very easy if it's virtually instant pain and severe difficulty walking. It's far harder when you can walk a short distance. Most of the time you don't need to consider the actual distance, you just know you can't manage it.
At the moment I know I can't get from my door to the bottom of the path without stopping. Does it matter to me what that distance is? At other times I can walk to my local supermarket providing I take it slowly. I have measured both of these distances recently and the time it takes me, which I also would struggle to estimate because again it's not normally important to me so I've never noticed.
I think most people would be the same in the sense that they know that they can walk to a certain point or can complete a certain trip. Until they measure that distance they would probably struggle to state the distance accurately in metres.
Hi Les this bit the down grading of the tribunal service,where did you find this info.
They are going to have fun with me then because I have a balance issue. I can walk about 10 metres (with walker) as though I have had a few too many then I start to tire considerably and have to stop momentarily to try and balance myself before continuing. This is an extremely exhausting way of getting from A-B and leaves me quite breathless (possibly as I have COPD too). This was initially and intermittent issue since onset of balance problem in July 15 but appears to be a permanent problem for me now as I have loss the balance in my left ear. I am fine sitting down and can drive but getting to and from my car is struggle enough. My life (like many others on here) has been turned upside down and inside out, since this problem became permanent, through no fault of my own but I suspect I will be reduced PIP too. I naturally appeal but I struggle with my normal day to day activities anything over this is absolutely knackering. We do not need treating like second rate citizens to add to our problems.
Hiya ..remember 10 meters is roughly 33 feet in old imperial!!!
They will mark you down for anything over 5 meters 18ft!