PIP disallowance affecting ESA and Housing Benefit

NB - I'm very tempted to open up a new claim and once referred to the assessment provider, to ask for a cancellation appointment to expedite the process. It could be completed in less than eight weeks, and hopefully should give me a much better result because I would be able to explain in full how my daily-living is impacted by my conditions.

I think it would close this one though, so I do have to be careful. I think it would be best to wait about a month before deciding course-of-action. Do you know if legal-aid lawyers exist for this kind of thing?

Sorry for the third reply, I found something in your post to quote

"Your concerns about being assessed by a physiotherapist may be valid but you would need to show that this had materially effected the quality of the assessment that was produced, this cannot be assumed just because they have no medical training in mental health issues."

I feel it has, because he's misusing MSO assessments to determine which descriptor to recommend. The PIP2 questionnaire does not state I had mobility issues or anything of that nature.

The mental state observations were clearly inaccurate if it states both that I "coped well" and mentions aggression at the same time, and there are demonstrably erroneous findings about medication and mental-health involvement (I have had extensive involvement in the past year, I was recently moved and had involvement with a local clinic.

A Care/Treatment Plan was produced merely days before the assessment, where he states no such plan exists. If his physiotherapy occupation was in principle not relevant, why was it used to recommend the wrong descriptor?