Current 'law' on recording PIP assessments.

I think I saw something about recording PIP assessments - currently they are NOT allowed ( - and certainly not without prior arrangement) ?

I'll be re-checking in the PIP assessment guide shortly, which may have been updated since I last looked. Any pointers to specific refs. therein and other places ( - on this now large site) would be appreciated.

Has the situation changed recently ? Is it the same ( - or different) for Capita, and the other lot (formerly Atos) ?

For an assessment ( - either at home, or elsewhere) what business is it of theirs to NOT allow/object to the claimant recording the it, to preserve important ?

This sound like a matter for Judicial Review, if the DWP continues to insisting on curtailing rights of citizens ( - at what is a private hearing). Wonder if there are any Law firms prepared to take this up ?.

I guess 'covert' recording is still always an option - but I would prefer to be quite open about having this facility to record, as a legal right ! [After all, all Civil Law actions have now been recorded by the courts for years, as a statutory duty].

Look forward to pointes on this as the current position - and any related comments.

Best wishes.

Thanks for the reply. I'm not surprised by its contents.

However, I feel the DWP 'guidance' is being confused with statutory law, and accepted as mandatory - and all are just going along with it, unfortunately. And the DWP is wilfully imposing a position of important evidence not being retained, even though this could be virtually no cost to the claimant.

Sadly, too many of us just don't have the energy to challenge this type of on-going outrageousness, as matters stand.

Why should the claimant be MADE to be responsible for supplying a duplicate, made at the same time to the DWP ? However, I suspect this poor situation will remain unjust until it is successfully challenged and changed in the name of justice.