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50Twuncle wrote: »

You don't"t get offered a home assessment - You have to be aware that the option exists - and ask for one !!

This is completely untrue. And it's rude to imply the OP is somehow not being truthful.

Because of the nature of my disabilities I was offered a home assessment with ATOS with PIP but declined.

rockingbilly

poppy12345 wrote: »

Aren't you talking about a past DLA claim? How many times have we heard that old story?! It may well have been different back then. It's PIP now, you're still living in the past...time to move on as this is getting seriously boring -yawns-

Yes it was for a past DLA claim
But isn't it the case for PIP as well? I don't know as I've never had that one. Do they still send a map and instructions on how to get to the assessment centre by public transport?

lyniced

Again - I never asked for an assessment at home - I was given it.

rockingbilly

lyniced wrote: »

Again - I never asked for an assessment at home - I was given it.

I don't disbelieve you. I think what people are amazed at is that to get a home assessment you have to go round the houses proving that you NEED a home visit before one is given.
You must have had some very good medical evidence for them to offer one.

lyniced

Yes, I probably do. I guess they just read my notes and history. Incidentally a friend of mine had her assessment at home too (not asked for) so maybe it's a Kent thing.

Tommo1980

Home assessments are standard practice in some areas.

Tom

rockingbilly

Tommo1980 wrote: »

Home assessments are standard practice in some areas.

Tom

If that is the case and it is the norm to have a home assessment, why am I seeing many posts where people are wanting to get one but can't?

Also if it is the norm and someone doesn't want a home assessment (me included) can they just opt out?

elsien

Just for information, anyone wondering what is going on with the sidetracking may wish cast their eye over this thread, particularly page 3 onwards.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5626671

50Twuncle

elsien wrote: »

Just for information, anyone wondering what is going on with the sidetracking may wish cast their eye over this thread, particularly page 3 onwards.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5626671

You wouldn't be claiming that RB is not a genuine claimant would you ?

john2054

rockingbilly, i really don't know what the problem is with some people on this site.

I am frankly disgusted by both that, and the dwp's whole business with this affair,

They said i had to go to sheffield for an 8am meeting, which is 2 hours away from me on the train, and there is no chance me and my wife would have been able to make this, and send our daughter to school. So I tried to change it, and they said this was my last chance to change, before it is automatically cancelled. And they made us get a 45 minute bus journey away to Nottingham for a 9-40am meeting (we had to get someone else to take my kid to school that day).

They were very rude, and it was clear they were trying to catch me out the whole way. I thought they were on my side, and tried to act my best, but then this was the wrong strategy. I should have said i can't wipe my own bum, or dress myself, as a lot of other people having been doing, and i may have been able to get some money.

As it is, it has all been stopped, because i downplayed my illness (paranoid schizophrenia), rather than over egged it. Lesson learned.