Atos home assessment

poppy12345

Tommo1980 wrote: »

poppy is spot on! You take someone with you to the assessment because you need the support, not to score points with the assessor.

The same is true of having a home assessment, taking a taxi to the assessment centre etc. It is about what you need to get through that assessment and get the correct entitlement.

Your insistence on labouring the same points on almost every thread is not helping anyone. You !!!!ed up your own claim, get over it and move on.

My thoughts exactly. Well said Tommo and thank you!:beer:

rockingbilly

poppy12345 wrote: »

Of course it would if the claimant has anxiety issues talking to someone they've never met before is most likey their worst nightmare. Just because you choose NOT to take/have someone with you doesn't mean others want the same thing.

Choose?? Not entirely the case. I have no choice most of the time but to go it alone. Given a choice of course I would like my solicitor, social worker, driver and a rep from a Welfare Rights organisation to go with me.
If I don't turn up my claim would be closed down.
And if it means going alone, on a bus and walking what choice do I have but to persevere and go?
How I am after when I get home and how I feel whilst sitting in the assessing room trying my damnest to not make an idiot of myself only I know.

rockingbilly

Tommo1980 wrote: »

poppy is spot on! You take someone with you to the assessment because you need the support, not to score points with the assessor.

I think that the opposite applies to the original question

. hi if you were granted a home assessment from atos on the grounds that being around too many people gives you extreme anxiety which worsens my agoraphobia, does it work in your favour if u are granted a home assessment.

Would you be more likely to gain points/more points if you turned up with someone to support you?

rockingbilly

Tommo1980 wrote: »

poppy is spot on! You take someone with you to the assessment because you need the support, not to score points with the assessor.

I think that the opposite applies to the original question

[I]. hi if you were granted a home assessment from atos on the grounds that being around too many people gives you extreme anxiety which worsens my agoraphobia, does it work in your favour if u are granted a home assessment.[/I]

Would you be more likely to gain points/more points if you turned up with someone to support you?

rockingbilly

Tommo1980 wrote: »

poppy is spot on! You take someone with you to the assessment because you need the support, not to score points with the assessor.

I think that the opposite applies to the original question

hi if you were granted a home assessment from atos on the grounds that being around too many people gives you extreme anxiety which worsens my agoraphobia, does it work in your favour if u are granted a home assessment.

Would you be more likely to gain points/more points if you turned up with someone to support you?

poppy12345

rockingbilly wrote: »

Choose?? Not entirely the case. I have no choice most of the time but to go it alone. Given a choice of course I would like my solicitor, social worker, driver and a rep from a Welfare Rights organisation to go with me.
If I don't turn up my claim would be closed down.
And if it means going alone, on a bus and walking what choice do I have but to persevere and go?
How I am after when I get home and how I feel whilst sitting in the assessing room trying my damnest to not make an idiot of myself only I know.

If the appointment date/time/place is too far for a person to travel without causing discomfort, pain and stress then do what most people do.....change the appointment to somewhere closer to home. Why continue to bring something up that happeneed to you years ago. I'm sure i'm not the only one fed up either....

rockingbilly

poppy12345 wrote: »

If the appointment date/time/place is too far for a person to travel without causing discomfort, pain and stress then do what most people do.....change the appointment to somewhere closer to home. Why continue to bring something up that happeneed to you years ago. I'm sure i'm not the only one fed up either....

Maybe because I am awaiting the call to go for an assessment for the changeover from DLA to PIP.
The Jobcentre I believe haven't made a good case out for me on the PIP2 so I just don't know how to get beyond that and how I will cope at the assessment when my answers may well be totally different to what was put on the PIP2.
As I have said, I have already been through similar years ago and being that much older and being unable to explain myself face to face I am dreading it.
Hence my attitude that I don't care if they find that I have no disabilities and refuse the claim.
I don't have anybody to take me or come with me.

poppy12345

rockingbilly wrote: »

Maybe because I am awaiting the call to go for an assessment for the changeover from DLA to PIP.
The Jobcentre I believe haven't made a good case out for me on the PIP2 so I just don't know how to get beyond that and how I will cope at the assessment when my answers may well be totally different to what was put on the PIP2.
As I have said, I have already been through similar years ago and being that much older and being unable to explain myself face to face I am dreading it.
Hence my attitude that I don't care if they find that I have no disabilities and refuse the claim.
I don't have anybody to take me or come with me.

Well you had a good look through the PIP2 form so you must have had time to put right was wrong wrong?

On the other hand if you have NO disabilities then why are you claiming DLA and in the process of applying for PIP??

Alice_Holt

rockingbilly wrote: »

Maybe because I am awaiting the call to go for an assessment for the changeover from DLA to PIP.

I don't have anybody to take me or come with me.

That's a shame.

But I've just spotted in one of your many posts on the Mobility Car thread, you wrote
"I know when I am buying a new car for my wife ... we are given a similar car for a couple of days to test it out...... She is thinking of up grading to the new Pace model so they are to loan her one for a weekend whilst our car is having some warranty work carried out in mid March.."
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5607698

Can I make a suggestion?
Couldn't your wife drive you there, and come into the assessment with you?

BTW Rockingbilly- Would that be the new Jaguar F-Pace you and you wife are upgrading to?
http://www.jaguar.co.uk/jaguar-range/f-pace/index.html
"The Jaguar F-Pace is the company's first SUV and a rival to everything from the Audi Q5 and BMW X3 through to the Porsche Macan, such is the breadth of its engine options and pricing structure."
Which model will your wife be getting? This one looks interesting - http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/jaguar-f-pace-svr-spotted-first-time
I note that you also wrote "I buy a new car every 3 years" - stretch it out for another 18 months and I'm sure the SVR will be on the market by then.

Or was it the upcoming I-Pace you and your wife had your sights set on?
"The I-Pace is Jaguar's first electric car, and takes the form of a small SUV. With an ability to travel more than 310 miles on a single charge, it surpasses the range of the world’s only other all-electric SUV, the Tesla Model X. What's more, its two motors give it four-wheel drive, a combines 395bhp, and allow it to accelerate from 0-60mph in around four seconds."
If that was the "new Pace model" you were referring to then I'm afraid to tell you that it's not due to come to market until 2018, so it you won't be available, even for you, in mid-March as a courtesy car.

rockingbilly

poppy12345 wrote: »

Well you had a good look through the PIP2 form so you must have had time to put right was wrong wrong?

On the other hand if you have NO disabilities then why are you claiming DLA and in the process of applying for PIP??

I have said previously I couldn't make head to toe of what was put on the form - I just didn't understand it. Yes I had a look at it got confused and sent if off to the DWP. What bits I did sort of understand didn't make any sense. If I was able to right what had been written then I would have filled the form out myself and would not have needed any help.
Who said I didn't have any disabilities? The evidence, reports and my prescription list suggests otherwise.