Transfer DLA to PIP - Page 2 - Benefits and Work Forum (2024)

Well PIP assessment in the morning......am really getting uptight about it which isn't helping my pain levels at all! Finally got time rearranged to a lunchtime appointment and hubby is going with me for support. Rather than struggling in and out of wheelchair I am taking my mini scooter and there is no way I am getting off it unless it's for the toilet! Seriously I am having real jitters about this. And am so sick and tired of having to prove to these people that I am genuinely in pain and cannot walk! Do they not think that if I could be mobile I would not be running through the fields instead of spending the majority of my time asleep and dosed up with drugs and not having a life? Anyway, enough of my moaning, can anyone give me any advice on face to face assessment with Capita? I have fibromyalgia, brain fog, asthma, arthritic spine, tinnitus, sleep apnea with CPAP therapy every night and IBS.....any support would be much appreciated.....

Still awaiting a decision but have received a copy of my assessment report which shockingly holds a number of lies. Heard of a mandatory reconsideration.....is this the name for an appeal or is it something entirely different? I was assessed as having 12 points (enhanced rate) for mobility....The assessment report from Capita has only given me 9 points for care which will put me into the "standard" bracket rate from "enhanced" which I have held for the last 5 years). Nothing has changed but I have checked my application form copy which states that my hubby cooks for me and also bathes me daily. The assessor states that I am able to cook a meal with aids (perching stool). Whole problem with my cooking is that I cannot lift pans, forget ingredients etc and am putting myself at risk from scalding, leaving rings on etc, which resulted in me setting the bread board and a teatowel alight! I told her I don't cook at all!! Also I cannot lift my arms above my head to wash hair upper body etc or bend down low enough to wash my legs or feet, I cannot lift my legs up to even dress or undress, hubby does all this daily but she stated that I have a wet room and again use aid (shower stool) to bathe myself! According to B&W points system for PIP she has cost me at least 3 points?? Now seeing as though a final decision is still in progress, can I dare believe that the decision maker will read ALL my application form as well as read the assessors report and in doing so would it be possible those 3 points be awarded?? Very upset and confused regarding mandatory reconsideration ( if I can understand what it is), I do not want to pursue an appeal for stress reasons and a possibility that I will lose even more points!

Ok, thank you for your reply x

Hi jm1, sorry to read of the worrying time you are having