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5 years 9 months ago #214346 by Orangeblossom
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Hi Gordon I hope you had a good break.
I have my date for my home visit for PIP review. I expect they will look at the areas the Appeals scored me on last time. The thing is, I'm unsure as to how the Appeals found the scores I got as they were not actually what I mentioned in my paper appeal. They say they went on all the paperwork.
As I mentioned things are the same I will need to prove I still meet these points to reach the same award as before. So i have some queries and also about the following journeys part as well. I'm just worried about some things they might assume or do at the F2F to take away these and getting prepared. Any advice welcome. I've read the guide also but wanted to clarify some things.
Points were raised from previously (by Appeals) to:
4 points: support with socialising. If they feel i can speak with them at the interview can they try and reduce this? or if they feel I occasionally speak to others does it count against me?
4 points: preparing food. I need to follow a certain diet which means longer to prepare food. Does this count or is it purely about other difficulties e.g. mental health.? If cooking a simple for children or family does that count against this as my needs are different?
4 Points: Following a journey: I think I might score the new points for not being able to follow an unfamiliar journey - but they didn;t give me this originally saying I can use public transport. Does this still count against for this. I did say only on occasion and would be in a familiar area.
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I have my date for my home visit for PIP review. I expect they will look at the areas the Appeals scored me on last time. The thing is, I'm unsure as to how the Appeals found the scores I got as they were not actually what I mentioned in my paper appeal. They say they went on all the paperwork.
As I mentioned things are the same I will need to prove I still meet these points to reach the same award as before. So i have some queries and also about the following journeys part as well. I'm just worried about some things they might assume or do at the F2F to take away these and getting prepared. Any advice welcome. I've read the guide also but wanted to clarify some things.
Points were raised from previously (by Appeals) to:
4 points: support with socialising. If they feel i can speak with them at the interview can they try and reduce this? or if they feel I occasionally speak to others does it count against me?
4 points: preparing food. I need to follow a certain diet which means longer to prepare food. Does this count or is it purely about other difficulties e.g. mental health.? If cooking a simple for children or family does that count against this as my needs are different?
4 Points: Following a journey: I think I might score the new points for not being able to follow an unfamiliar journey - but they didn;t give me this originally saying I can use public transport. Does this still count against for this. I did say only on occasion and would be in a familiar area.
Many thanks.
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5 years 9 months ago #214362 by Gordon
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The four points for Mixing with Others is because the claimant needs Social Support to engage with others, so your talking with the assessor directly will almost certainly count against you. You can argue that the assessment is not a social occasion and therefore there may be no need for you to have Social Support but it may be an uphill struggle.
You won't score points for things that you do not do, only things that you cannot do, so your special diet will not help. You will still need to explain why you cannot prepare a meal if you needed to.
You won't have scored four points for being unable to follow an unfamiliar journey, this scores 10 points, so if you did only score four points then it is for
b. Needs prompting to be able to undertake any journey to avoid overwhelming psychological distress to the claimant. 4 points.
Which is a totally different and mutually exclusive reason.
Gordon
The four points for Mixing with Others is because the claimant needs Social Support to engage with others, so your talking with the assessor directly will almost certainly count against you. You can argue that the assessment is not a social occasion and therefore there may be no need for you to have Social Support but it may be an uphill struggle.
You won't score points for things that you do not do, only things that you cannot do, so your special diet will not help. You will still need to explain why you cannot prepare a meal if you needed to.
You won't have scored four points for being unable to follow an unfamiliar journey, this scores 10 points, so if you did only score four points then it is for
b. Needs prompting to be able to undertake any journey to avoid overwhelming psychological distress to the claimant. 4 points.
Which is a totally different and mutually exclusive reason.
Gordon
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5 years 9 months ago #214580 by Orangeblossom
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Thanks,
It is quite tricky as going by the points the Appeals gave me last review (but they gave no real info about how they came to the conclusions and just said used the paper bundle). Previously had points for 'prompting' for these things but Appeals changed things to 'support' instead.
We'll see, I have my husband there for support anyway.
It is quite tricky as going by the points the Appeals gave me last review (but they gave no real info about how they came to the conclusions and just said used the paper bundle). Previously had points for 'prompting' for these things but Appeals changed things to 'support' instead.
We'll see, I have my husband there for support anyway.
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