No Change on MR

blinkiefairy wrote: Hi just received a letter to say my PIP Remains the same Standard care and Low Mob gutted as my Car goes back now 20th June And I will be house bound ..I got 10 points and I needed 12 they still state I can walk more than 20 mts to 50 Metres but no more where do I go now Is it worth going to appeal any advice would be welcome I am in NI Thanks

The first thing you should do Is check with Motability as they have changed the rules on returning cars and it may be possible for you to retain your car longer.

As to an appeal, if you are only scoring points for the Moving Around activity you will need to show that you cannot reliably stand and then move (walk) more than 20m on the majority of days, can you reasonably do this?

If you think that you can, or that you already have, then it is definitely worth your looking at an appeal, revision rates at MR are quite low but are over 60% at appeal, although you can't really apply this sort of statistic to an individual claim.

The PIP Appeal guide has links to the SSCS1 form that you will need to complete and the Submissions guide has a complete example that you can use to help you fill it in, you do not need to provide detailed reasons at this stage for your request.

Once your appeal is accepted the DWP will prepare their submission to the hearing and send you a copy, whilst you should wait until you receive this to finish and submit your own, you should start to prepare your own case, an increased award will only be made by your showing that you score the extra points for one, so I would start by going back through your PIP2, the assessment report and the PIP Claim guide to see how you might show this is the case.

If you have further questions then please reply to this post and we will do our best to help.

Gordon

blinkiefairy wrote: I havent received an assesment report ..do you need to ask for it?
Received the Appeal form today

It is only sent on request but you will now get a copy as part of the DWP's submission to the appeal.

Gordon