PIP Face to Face Appointment Query

Hi Dalglish60

You should be given seven days' notice of an appointment for an assessment unless you agree to a shorter time period.

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Hi Dalglish60

The assessment centre should be able to record your assessment, and you should warn them that you want this done. You can also record the assessment yourself, but again you will have to let them know in advance because some assessors refuse to be recorded (which they have the right to do).

If you need reasonable adjustments made, it will be up to the assessment centre to tell you whether they can accommodate you. All you can do is ask.

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Hi Dalglish60

I understand your fear, but you're asking a question that I can't possibly answer. I don't know what it's like to be you, with your condition/s and the difficulties that will present in a stressful situation. As I said before, for any reasonable adjustments you need, you will have to ask and see what they say. If you're not giving the answer an assessor wants, they will try and draw more out of you. Try not to put so much pressure on yourself to get it 'right'. You can only do what you can do. However, much you try and prepare for this, you will probably do what most people do afterwards and wish they had written more on their form or said something different in the assessment to a question they've been asked.

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