Pip fiasco

Having had an indefinite award of DLA mobility, I have just received the report by an ATOS physiotherapist who has blatantly lied throughout the report - going so far as to invent conversations and report on tests that she did not ask me to perform.
One of the lies (that I like texting) I can disprove as I have a PAYG phone and can prove that I have taken 8 months to use £30 credit, but she has stated that I did not get breathless through the assessment - when I did, and she commented at the time - and that I could crouch halfway, when my leg cracked loudly when I tried - and she admitted at the time that she heard the crack!
She has also said that I stood up without help (I used the chair arms to push myself upwards) and that I walked at a normal pace and with a normal gait, when I walk with a limp and half the speed of my sister. Oh, and I apparently have no weakness in my leg or my arm - after a DWP doctor last year stated I had significantly reduced power in them for my claim to ESA (which I passed).
The DWP will be forced to deny me PIP after her report. I am gutted and fuming at her blatant lies.

I have been told today that as I passed the ESA medical (with a qualified doctor), that I should not have had to have a PIP assessment, as DWP should have used the medical assessment from the ESA claim Is this true?
I constantly referred to the ESA medical assessment for my claim to PIP, but DWP told me that I could not use that as evidence.

LameDuck wrote: I have been told today that as I passed the ESA medical (with a qualified doctor), that I should not have had to have a PIP assessment, as DWP should have used the medical assessment from the ESA claim Is this true?
I constantly referred to the ESA medical assessment for my claim to PIP, but DWP told me that I could not use that as evidence.

Hi LD,

I don't know who told you that, but I am afraid that it is not compulsory for them to use an ESA medical report to assess you for PIP.

They sometimes do, however, the qualifying criteria for ESA and PIP are different.

You could request your own ESA documentation, and if any information found therein is supportive of your PIP claim, you could present that as evidence for your PIP assessment.

See : This Post for further information regarding making a request for personal information/documentation from DWP.

As for your last statement regarding DWP not allowing you to present ESA Documentation that is supportive to a PIP assessment, they can't stop you.

However, if you were trying to argue that because you had gone through an ESA face to face and received an ESA award, you should not have to undergo a PIP face to face, they do not have to accept that argument.

Being in either group of ESA, (WRAG or SG) gives you no rights to a PIP award, nor does it automatically exclude you from having to attend a PIP face to face.

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