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PIP scoring - impact of not meeting STAR / Reliability standard
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1 week 2 days ago #303158 by anne3427
PIP scoring - impact of not meeting STAR / Reliability standard was created by anne3427
I'm struggling to understand how not being able to undertake a DL activity reliably (although being able to do it unreliably) impacts scoring. Background; I scored 2 for engaging with OP F2F and 2 for making budgeting decisions - this was after receiving no scores on these at assessment and MR but awarded them after a DM / CW reviewed the original and subsequent decisions before the appeal was heard. So for Engaging the DM decided I need to be prompted by another person to engage and for budgeting I need prompting or assistance from another person to make complex budgetting decisions.
Because of my cognitive difficulties and resulting stress neither prompting nor prompting or assistance would help; for engaging I can do this to a limited degree with well used phrases like thank you, yes, no, I don't know etc but further engagement results in panic, severe stress and is ALWAYS followed by exhaustion. Prompting to engage helps me to find the words that I often can't bring forward but still leaves me with the panic, severe stress and exhaustion and with budgetting I can do this slowly as I have trouble with slow processing speed and often make mistakes because of transposing numbers as I have a visual working memory deficit (sometimes these mistakes are costly and take a lot of effort to put right), no amount of prompting or assistance is going to change this so I'm wondering whether anyone knows if there's some matrix / guidance / legislation / caselaw that helps DM's decide how to score where someone is unable to undertake an activity reliably please?
Any thoughts on this appreciated.
Because of my cognitive difficulties and resulting stress neither prompting nor prompting or assistance would help; for engaging I can do this to a limited degree with well used phrases like thank you, yes, no, I don't know etc but further engagement results in panic, severe stress and is ALWAYS followed by exhaustion. Prompting to engage helps me to find the words that I often can't bring forward but still leaves me with the panic, severe stress and exhaustion and with budgetting I can do this slowly as I have trouble with slow processing speed and often make mistakes because of transposing numbers as I have a visual working memory deficit (sometimes these mistakes are costly and take a lot of effort to put right), no amount of prompting or assistance is going to change this so I'm wondering whether anyone knows if there's some matrix / guidance / legislation / caselaw that helps DM's decide how to score where someone is unable to undertake an activity reliably please?
Any thoughts on this appreciated.
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2 days 11 hours ago #303474 by BIS
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Hi anne3427
Here is link to the guide the DWP provides for assessment providers on how they should carry out assessments. www.gov.uk/government/publications/perso...assessment-providers
At the end of the day, much of the decision-making comes down to the assessor's 'opinion' on what a claimant can or can not do.
BIS
Here is link to the guide the DWP provides for assessment providers on how they should carry out assessments. www.gov.uk/government/publications/perso...assessment-providers
At the end of the day, much of the decision-making comes down to the assessor's 'opinion' on what a claimant can or can not do.
BIS
Nothing on this board constitutes legal advice - always consult a professional about specific problems
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