Drs letter

sweetpea wrote: Just heard back about MR with no luck. My gp wrote a letter saying how ill I was & the dwp ignored it. No-one came in with me at my assessment so irt's my word against th HP who lied, made things up & didn't record everything I told her. I know I need to go to tribunal but how can I convince them that I was honest in what I wrote on my questionnaire & said at assessment. I don't know how these people can sleep at night.

Appeal panels take a more balanced view of a claimant evidence and information, so don't assume that they won't listen to you, have a look at the following

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/3783-pip-...7-on-last-year-to-71

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/3688-most...enior-tribunal-judge

The PIP Appeal guide has links to the SSCS1 form that you will need to complete and the Submissions guide has a complete example that you can use to help you fill it in, you do not need to provide detailed reasons at this stage for your request.

Once your appeal is accepted the DWP will prepare their submission to the hearing and send you a copy, whilst you should wait until you receive this to finish and submit your own, you should start to prepare your own case, an increased award will only be made by your showing that you score the extra points for one, so I would start by going back through your PIP2, the assessment report and the PIP Claim guide to see how you might show this is the case.

Gordon