Give me strength!

Helga

Dealing with the practical first.

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.

An appeal is not always about the claimant providing new evidence, have a look at the following

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/3783-pip-...7-on-last-year-to-71

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/3688-most...enior-tribunal-judge

Decision Makers are not medically trained and often fail to recognise the importance of medial evidence and assessors place far too much emphasis on their observations at the assessment over the information supplied by the claimant in and with their claim form.

Gordon