DLA to PIP Brown envelope finally arrived 0 points

Mobba

The first thing is that you need to be prepared to take this to appeal, revisions rates at MR are low as the DWP prioritise the assessors report over any of the other evidence.

As to your MR, concentrate first on making sure that you have shown that you meet the criteria to score points, go back to the Descriptors and to see what you need to have shown, it can help if you echo some of the language used.

Make sure that you have considered the use of "reliably" and it terms and if applicable; "on the majority of days".

I'm not saying to ignore the report but it should be a secondary concern as even if you prove it is inaccurate it is unlikely to result in your scoring points. That said there may be issues that you need to address but try to deal with factual issues rather arguing with the assessor over their opinions, as the latter is unlikely to be successful.

Gordon

Mobba

Two primary areas and one they ignore;

PIP requires a claimant to have been suffering with their current issues for at least three months and for there to be a reasonable expectation that they will continue to do so for at least another nine months.

So for example, if a claimant told the assessor that they were going to have a hip replacement in a couple of months and the assessor assessed them as having an ongoing problem with walking, then a DM may not agree with this recommendation as there would be an expectation that the operation would improve their ability to walk.

Secondly, the Descriptors are defined in law.

An area we regularly see this being an issue is with is in regard to the use of Public Transport and the Going Out activity. The DWP guidance includes this as being necessary to follow a route, however, the Descriptors make no reference to this as a requirement and we regularly see DM's removing points for this.

Lastly, an area that DM's regularly ignore is the requirements for activities to be completed reliably and on the majority of days. Both of these are defined in the legislation but seem to be rarely applied by DM's or assessors.

Gordon