PIP: MR Request letter sample

Hello,

May I ask if the fact the change of medication letter is dated the same date as my pip decision letter, could mean they said at their end it did not refer to my condition at the time of their decision when I send it with my mandatory reconsideration?

Pip also said they gave me standard rates also because my medication does not support a significant physical deterioration.

Yet I strongly suspect they did not take the medication into account.
What more could they want when these last many years
- I am allergic to a lot of medication with side effects
- I am in and out of pain management,
- these last 2 years I was on same medication (associated with risks of heart attacks) not working, so much so that GP’s reduced the dosage till they stopped it (and I sent pip evidence from medical notes to say it was reduced then stopped because of risks of heart attacks)
- Then pain management pharmacist put me on different medication for 2 months but I told pip it was not killing the pain and was getting very severe vertigo and warned pip that in the middle of March MSK was to call me to review my medication.

Unfortunately pharmacist called me and sent letter to GP with new medication request on the same day the assessor wrote her pip decision.
The pharmacist says she made me aware of risks of cardiac problems when taking this medication and if in 2 weeks there is an absence of therapeutic benefit for my GP to consider other therapeutic options.

In the context above, would pip have ‘grounds’ when I send them my mandatory reconsideration request with the pharmacist letter dated the same date as they review decision, to say they will not take it into account because it happened after their decision.

As they give so many different excuses (when they did not award me enhanced a few years ago they said I did not have accidents related to the descriptor, yet when I did and went to A&E and send it to then as proof they put the blame on the medication as they sayI have not reported significant changes to pain medication to support significant deterioration (of my physical disability) which for me does not make sense and is just an excuse.

Thank you so very much.

Kind wishes

Hello Catherine,

The pain management pharmacist letter is not about medication I took when I filled in the form, It is about medication prescribed on the same day the decision maker made a paper based assessment using the information on my PIP review form.

Yet on that pip form, I had warn the decision maker, that on a specific date in March, last month, the pain management pharmacist would call me to review my medicine (that was not working).

Yet the decision maker went ahead and made a decision on that day penalizing me by giving a mobility descriptor with lesser points because I have not reported significant changes in my pain medication. When if she had called me or waited a week for me send the medication prescribed by pain management on that specific day, she would have known that again there are risks of heart attacks with that one.

Would that another ground for my pip mandatory reconsideration?

I do not take your help for granted.
I am very grateful for your selfless kind help.

Kind wishes