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6 years 2 months ago #207269 by 25megroup
House Inspections on Home Visits for Assessment was created by 25megroup
Clearly a visiting assessor will be making 'informal observations' throughout a home visit. But do they have the right to see other parts of the house? And, even if they don't have this right, how is an assessor likely to react if they do ask to see more and the occupant(s) indicate they are not keen? Is this likely to have consequences? Grateful for thoughts / feedback from experience on this, as well as clarification on rights and obligations. (Can't see anything in the PIP assessment guide that indicates assessors have this right)
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6 years 2 months ago #207278 by Gordon
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Replied by Gordon on topic House Inspections on Home Visits for Assessment
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The assessor is a visitor in your house and has no more right to look around than anybody else, in reality very few assessors actually ask.
There are probably three areas that they will have an interest in, the kitchen, the bathroom and the toilet. These are all areas where you might have large aids such as a perching stool, step and grab rails and a raised toilet seat. These are all things that an Occupational Health team might provide rather than the claimant themselves.
Whether to allow them or not is clearly up to you, the only negative I can see is the assessor not being able to confirm the aids you have, but I think that this would be unlikely.
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The assessor is a visitor in your house and has no more right to look around than anybody else, in reality very few assessors actually ask.
There are probably three areas that they will have an interest in, the kitchen, the bathroom and the toilet. These are all areas where you might have large aids such as a perching stool, step and grab rails and a raised toilet seat. These are all things that an Occupational Health team might provide rather than the claimant themselves.
Whether to allow them or not is clearly up to you, the only negative I can see is the assessor not being able to confirm the aids you have, but I think that this would be unlikely.
Gordon
Nothing on this board constitutes legal advice - always consult a professional about specific problems
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6 years 2 months ago #207288 by MrFibro
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Hi to all,
Whenever I had my PIP home assessments, I had always asked the assessors to feel free to look around my home. And they wasn't interested in one bit at all.
I asked them they could see clearly then the obstacles I faced even in my own home.
They blatantly refused, and said, they have everything they needed to complete their assessments without looking around.
The only thing they did, was at the end of the assessment. Was could they use the bathroom.
That was the only observation they did. And their reason doing so was quite obviously wasn't it !.
I really think the assessors should consider this, as it gives more of a better and detailed assessment, assessing the claimant in a real life environment. Others may disagree with me.
Thanks for reading.
Kind regards to all.
Whenever I had my PIP home assessments, I had always asked the assessors to feel free to look around my home. And they wasn't interested in one bit at all.
I asked them they could see clearly then the obstacles I faced even in my own home.
They blatantly refused, and said, they have everything they needed to complete their assessments without looking around.
The only thing they did, was at the end of the assessment. Was could they use the bathroom.
That was the only observation they did. And their reason doing so was quite obviously wasn't it !.
I really think the assessors should consider this, as it gives more of a better and detailed assessment, assessing the claimant in a real life environment. Others may disagree with me.
Thanks for reading.
Kind regards to all.
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