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7 years 2 months ago #178931 by Mark
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I received my dreaded brown envelope last Friday, after weeks of confusion.When I opendm the letter I found out that my mobility had been put down to standard rate and the care the same. I was on higher level on Fla, don't know what to do for the best , wether to leave it as it is or do the mandatory reconsideration. ? Can they alter the awards so you become worse off.

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7 years 2 months ago #178934 by Gordon
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Mark

PIP was designed to be a more difficult to award than DLA in order to reduce the disability budget. One area where this is particularly the case is Mobility, where the distance required for an Enhanced award was reduced from the 50m usually used for DLA to only 20m for PIP.

Any review of your claim has the potential to reduce or even remove the current award, however, it is quite rare for this to happen, but is something that you must factor in to any decision to progress the matter.

If you want to progress the matter then the first stage to challenging a Decision is for you to request a Mandatory Reconsideration, this needs to be done in writing to the DWP, within one month of the Decision, to the office that dealt with your claim, have a look at our PIP MR & Appeal guide for details of the process, the PIP area also has template letters that you can use to make the request with.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/help-for-claimants/pip

You should contact the DWP for a copy of the assessment report if you have not already done so, I would phone them but again follow up the request in writing. Once you have the assessment report you will have a better understanding of how the DWP Decision Maker has come to their conclusions and will then be able to argue against them.

Your primary task is to show that you meet the criteria, there are many reasons you may have failed, you need to address each of these but don't get bogged down in criticising the assessment report unless you can clearly show that it is incorrect, it is a lot easier to argue the facts of the situation;

"the assessor recorded that I walked 50m, I did but they have failed to document that I had to stop every 10m for a rest due to breathlessness"

than their opinions

"based on my observations of the claimant walking I believe that they can reliably walk more than 200m.

When you have a better idea of the issues with your claim, come back to the forum and we will do our best to help.

Gordon

Nothing on this board constitutes legal advice - always consult a professional about specific problems

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