PIP phone assessment (to be rec by HCP)

Today I received a text telling me a date for my telephone assessment.

I promptly phoned IAS and asked them to confirm they would be phoning my landline number. Despite me calling before and having put it on file I wanted the assessor to phone landline they had no record of this.

Next I asked for my phone assessment to be recorded and I was told they would have to cancel my current assessment date because only a select few of their HCP's have access to recording equipment so I agreed and am now waiting on a new date.

My question is, does anyone here have any specific experience of this (obviously this is a new thing to 2020/1 due to on-going situation). My experience of a previous in-person ESA assessment that was recorded seemed more favourable. I, like many others, have had bad experience with pip HCP in the past. I will also be covertly recording my assessment as I do not trust them. Did I do the right thing?

Hi Catherine, thanks for your reply.
Absolutely willing to wait, I've already been waiting since November so I figure what difference does a few more weeks/month make really? As mentioned, do not fully trust the process and I feel (wrongly or rightly) that with the HCP knowing they are being recorded stops them from acting too far out of line.

Hi Vince, in our daughter's 2 experiences it didn't stop the assessor lying through their teeth being recorded. But it did stop them getting away with it! [Enhanced x 2 at appeal both times].
Hope you can cope without the money until back-pay if they keep you waiting that long; we were bank of mum and dad in the interim. Best wishes, Denby