pip medical

I have just had a letter from capita to say my face to face meeting is in 2 weeks at my home address ...I find this strange as I never requested a home visit although I don't mind .. On a previous letter they stated home visits are only given if you provide a doctors letter stating how difficult it would be for you to travel ..I didn't go down the lines of a home visit as I know other people near me always go to the nearest centre which is Nottingham and is not that far from me .. Has anyone any idea why they would give a home visit when it was not requested ...thanks

Clifford65 wrote: I have just had a letter from capita to say my face to face meeting is in 2 weeks at my home address ...I find this strange as I never requested a home visit although I don't mind .. On a previous letter they stated home visits are only given if you provide a doctors letter stating how difficult it would be for you to travel ..I didn't go down the lines of a home visit as I know other people near me always go to the nearest centre which is Nottingham and is not that far from me .. Has anyone any idea why they would give a home visit when it was not requested ...thanks

Hi C65,

Welcome to Benefits and Work

Capita do tend to carry out more Home Assessments than ATOS, although they do not do so as a matter of course.

It may well be that after reading your PIP 2 Form, they have decided that your limitations restrict your ability to travel to an Assessment Centre.

If so, you should look on this as a positive.

You can read what to expect at a PIP Face To Face from around Page 69 of our : PIP Claims Guide. (2nd Link down the page) if you haven't already done so !

You could also read through the latest version of : The PIP Assessment Guide which was updated on 28th July 2015 and gives guidance on how the Assessor should carry out the PIP Assessment.

You can choose the room where you wish the Assessment to take place, and the Assessor should not want to look around your home.

You may of course want to point out any Aids or Adaptations that you need to use to carry out any Activities that may be in another room.

You can have someone else present, and they can take notes.

A quick "heads up", Capita Assessors can turn up early, or not turn up at all !

Please keep us updated.

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This is making sense to me now ...as with my p.i.p form I sent a copy of my e.s.a assessment ..and in that assessment they had wrote that they had noticed my walking was very poor ...leaving me in a lot of pain as I tried to walk to the assement room ..they had even noted that I had to keep stopping ..so maybe they took that into consideration ...didn't think of that ...

I had my p.i.p medical 2weeks ago at home .. After the medical the lady turned round to me and said she will recommend that I get enhanced rate on care and mobility ..do they normally tell you this information ..and also is it more likely that I will get the enhanced rate on both as she is putting that in her report or do they just turn you down for the sake of it ... It's a waiting game now till I hear what I'm awarded ..

Hi Clifford,

I have merged your query with your previous topic regarding your PIP claim. It helps us enormously if everything relating to the same subject is kept in one place.

The DWP case manager usually goes with the HCP recommendation but we do have members for whom this was not the case. I would say that you have reason to be 'cautiously optimistic'. I hope you do not have to wait much longer for a positive decision.

You should Bookmark/Favourite this page in your Internet Browser now.

That way you can return to this topic easily to pose any further queries that you may have by replying to the topic.

See : This Topic also !

Thanks in anticipation of your future co-operation in keeping all your PIP related queries to this topic !