Despite using the guides, as I have done for the past 16 years, always successfully in the past, the person i care for has gone from middle level care and lower level getting around to nothing. He has a large hole in his brain. The assessment report contained gems such as, "you can drive a car so you have mental capacity." and "you can ask for directions when you get lost, so you can plan and follow a route." (He gets lost on familiar routes in a town where he has lived all his life and if he could plan and follow a journey he wouldn't get lost and need to ask) If it weren't all so stressful and blatantly unfair, it might be considered a joke. So now it's a mandatory appeal at the same time as an ESA review. So, what will they use during the ESA assessment - the refused PIP application, or will there be some sort of allowance for it being subject to review? v many thanks
We haven't seen a negative PIP report impact on an ESA assessment but I would spend extra time explaining their problems in the few areas where ESA and PIP overlap.
Gordon
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