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8 years 6 months ago #172298 by ejayne72
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Can you please advise. Following dla-pip f2f assessment, i have been downgraded from higher rate care to standard, even though i had sufficient medical evidence showing my mental health had worsened. The full report had many inconsistencies, my therapist was with me and she is proof that some parts of my report say the opposite of what i said. Although unfair, i am too scared to ask for a MR as can't risk the original award being stopped. However i would like to write to the DWP to tell them just how badly i feel and how my report was wrong in some parts. Can i do this without the original award being re-looked at? Thanks

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8 years 6 months ago #172335 by slugsta
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Hi Em,

I'm sorry that you did not get the award you believe you deserve :(

The first thing to say is that PIP was deliberately made harder to get, in order to reduce the benefits bill. Therefore there are a lot of people who see their award reduced - or removed. There are others who should have scored more points than they did!

DWP do tend to treat any correspondence after the decision as a request for MR, so you need to bear this in mind if you do decide to write.

As an alternative, you could consider complaining to the assessment provider (ATO or Capita, depending on where you live), the assessor's regulatory body ( ie NMC for a nurse) and/or your MP.

Contacting your MP

You would have 1 month in which to submit an MR request, so you have a bit of time to think over what you want to do.
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8 years 6 months ago #172505 by ejayne72
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Thanks, but i haven't got any time. My award letter was dated 3 October but it didn't arrive till 2 weeks after. The letter says a MR has to be made within a month from the date of the letter, not its arrival date, so only 2 days left. If i send a letter after my month is up, will they even then take it as a MR request? Thanks

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8 years 6 months ago #172520 by Gordon
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em wrote: Thanks, but i haven't got any time. My award letter was dated 3 October but it didn't arrive till 2 weeks after. The letter says a MR has to be made within a month from the date of the letter, not its arrival date, so only 2 days left. If i send a letter after my month is up, will they even then take it as a MR request? Thanks


You can make a late request, you will need to explain why it is late, but not receiving the letter in good time should be sufficient, but get the request in as soon as possible.

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8 years 6 months ago #172549 by ejayne72
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No, you got it wrong. I do not wish to make a MR request. I wanted to write to them just to tell them how bad they have made me, the fact that they got so much wrong - i just want to offload and make them aware just how bad these assessments can make us. But a previous post told me they would take this letter as a MR and i could risk losing my original award. So my question is if the date of the MR has passed, would i be safe to write such a letter?
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8 years 6 months ago #172576 by Gordon
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em wrote: No, you got it wrong. I do not wish to make a MR request. I wanted to write to them just to tell them how bad they have made me, the fact that they got so much wrong - i just want to offload and make them aware just how bad these assessments can make us. But a previous post told me they would take this letter as a MR and i could risk losing my original award. So my question is if the date of the MR has passed, would i be safe to write such a letter?


The only thing I can suggest is that you make complaint to the DWP about the way your claim was handled.

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