PIP- mandatory recon.-being assessed again?!

Hi there,

I recently requested a mandatory reconsideration of the PIP award decision I received (to challenge the mobility award.)

I sent in additional supporting evidence from myself and my Consultant, for the reconsideration, and then two weeks later I received a letter from capita, with a date for another face to face medical assessment at my home?

I phoned them and explained that I've already had the face to face assessment before, and that I was requesting a reconsideration, and they said that I have to have another assessment, and that a reconsideration triggers a new claim?

I'm confused as to why I am required to have a second face to face assessment, I had thought that the mandatory consideration process would be carried out with all the existing information they already have? Why go through all the sane questions again? I've provided all the answers before, and a ton of supporting evidence.

Has anyone else been told that they have to attend a second assessment just weeks after the first one?

I also requested a copy of the original assessor's medical report, and this hasn't been acknowledged by the DWP or sent to me.
They've just sent me the letter saying that I will be having (another!) face to face medical assessment next week?!

Hi Gordon,

Thankyou, that's what I thought.

I contacted them and they didn't give me any further information other than that they said I have to have another assessment.
No explanation.

It just doesn't seem right to me.

N