PIP assessment tomorrow, how to prove am terrible with budgeting?

IAmWales

dee100 wrote: »

i cannot use sharp knives as due to poor concentration, impatience severely cut myself...i use blunt knives for cooking
I'm sure their quotas for this week will be low for amount of people they have to refuse and i will do well.
i will be in receipt of PIP in 2 weeks.
thanks Alice, I will take that wording i wrote with me re how spending makes me feel good. giving me some contro; over my life.

A blunt knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife. But I'm sure you've got evidence of these severe cuts to show the assessor ...

You don't need "wording", you need to be honest. It is coming over that you are trying to contrive your case in order to meet the descriptors. I don't doubt that you have difficulties but egging things up in order to get an award is not on, and is no better than an assessor (allegedly) trying to find ways to refuse you an award.

dee100

If I make eye contact they will say i don't have depression anxiety?
Ditto if I look clean and well dressed?
Thinking of wearing cardigan, no shirt and hair dishevelled
re wording, that was my wording as i will get anxious and forget what to say...everything up to this point is true
The govt decided to exclude mentally ill as disabled to save millions. Only severely physically disabled will get PIP

dee100

my assessment is in 2 half hours

dee100

I suppose you will tell me leaving cash at ATm is careless? ie not due to anxiety and that i made that up too? ? That I left cash at ATM 4 times is a lie??

serenaly

I also have GAD along with severe depression and PTSD.
I did not have to overthink this, what I have has a natural display, you do not need to stress these symptoms because the stress it causes is on a day to day basis is exhausting enough.. Just because I have these problems does not mean that I would not brush my hair. I do not use knives because of a severe phobia which I will not discuss on here but is linked with my PTSD. I really think that you are overthinking the whole thing. People who are just honest about their day to day life are the people that indeed will be awarded the correct points.
I wish you luck for your hearing.

Lioness_Twinkletoes

dee100 wrote: »

If I make eye contact they will say i don't have depression anxiety?
Ditto if I look clean and well dressed?
Thinking of wearing cardigan, no shirt and hair dishevelled
re wording, that was my wording as i will get anxious and forget what to say...everything up to this point is true
The govt decided to exclude mentally ill as disabled to save millions. Only severely physically disabled will get PIP

You are now seriously looking like you're deliberately dressing and acting in order to gain a benefit.

poppy12345

dee100 wrote: »

If I make eye contact they will say i don't have depression anxiety?
Ditto if I look clean and well dressed?
Thinking of wearing cardigan, no shirt and hair dishevelled
re wording, that was my wording as i will get anxious and forget what to say...everything up to this point is true
The govt decided to exclude mentally ill as disabled to save millions. Only severely physically disabled will get PIP

That's just ridiculous. Would you go out every day dressed that way with your hair like that? If you do then that's fine but if you don't then you're just putting on a front in order to get those points.

That comment is NOT true. i'm not severly physically disabled but i claim PIP. I can walk but i can't walk 20 metres regularly, reliably without pain and discomfort and i calim Enhanced mobility.

Exagerating things in your life is not the way to go about gaining those points for an award.

bigbulldog

dee100 wrote: »

I suppose you will tell me leaving cash at ATm is careless? ie not due to anxiety and that i made that up too? ? That I left cash at ATM 4 times is a lie??

I've done that in the past and I've also left my mobile phone in my back pocket and sat on it and guess what it broke,but that does not entitle me to benefits and I have been in the red with the bank to many tiimes to remember when our children were young,but again that does not entitle me to pip.

Sorry,but like others have said your trying to manipulate your problems to fit the descriptors.

Cheeky_Monkey

dee100 wrote: »

If I make eye contact they will say i don't have depression anxiety?
Ditto if I look clean and well dressed?
Thinking of wearing cardigan, no shirt and hair dishevelled
re wording, that was my wording as i will get anxious and forget what to say...everything up to this point is true
The govt decided to exclude mentally ill as disabled to save millions. Only severely physically disabled will get PIP

I think that pretty much proves IAmWales' point.

_CC_

From seeing a family member with autism go through the PIP process, I'd be very surprised if you were awarded for the budgeting activity. If you manage your own bills and don't have obvious signs of obvious mismanagement relating to your condition then I doubt you'll get any points for it.

I would also prepare not to get points on quite a few of the activities you're expecting points for.