F2F Assessment Report Upsetting

fibromummy

Well Baza, because I'm 30 and I used to have a career that wiped the floor with my husbands but my life changed drastically and I find that hard to cope with because I don't want to give up. I always try doing my own accounts and helping my child with maths homework as I don't want to sit there and give up. I offered my husband help as he was there in a mountain of paperwork and I didn't end up actually helping but at least I tried.

I am also reliant on every aide I have and cannot do the tasks without them.

kingfisherblue

baza52 wrote: »

do you have evidence to back this up?
If your that bad with figures why were you doing accounts in the first place? It seems a bit of a contradiction.
Having an aide does not mean you are reliant on it. If you can use an aide to complete a task then you are capable of doing the task.

Unfortunately this is not always the case. For example, my son has bilateral hearing aids. They are provided by the hospital audiology department. It does not mean that my son can hear clearly all of the time - the aids increase the amplification of background noise as well as the voices that he struggles to hear, so whilst in theory, he can hear better, in practice it is not always the case.


Another aid provided by the hospital is a foam wedge, designed to raise the head end of my son's mattress. The aim of this is to prevent reflux and choking, as gravity (in theory) helps. However, despite having the wedge for most of his life, my son still needed several medications, plus surgery, to try to prevent reflux - and nothing worked completely! Although he has improved a lot, he still has reflux and choking sessions, causing pain and distress.


Aids can be very useful, but they do not necessarily mean that you can manage everything once you have an appropriate aid.

anonymousn123

The same is happening to me right now. I'm diagnosed with a personality disorder and suffer severe anxiety too. I also have a congenital brain disorder, which has led to vision loss and severe headaches daily, and I may be having brain surgery to relieve the pain.



The assessor was rude to me, even questioned the validity of my personality disorder diagnosis.

When I got the letter this week, it said I have been removed from the support group. I rang up and asked for an explanation on their decision, and she has lied about me too. She has made up things, claiming she carried out visual depth perception test. She has omitted over half of the information I told her, I'm regards to how both of my conditions affect me. And the biggest issue now is she has not put down my diagnosis of a personality disorder!



It's so frustrating how the people who are genuinely sick and disabled go in with evidence and telling the truth, and they lie because they know many are too sick and vulnerable to fight back.

fibromummy

I'm so sorry to hear what you have gone through, it seems like unfortunately it is a common thing to happen to people. As you said, it's disgusting that someone would do that :'( I believe in karma x

fibromummy

Just to update, just got the mandatory reconsideration notice and they've kept everything the same and just continued to refer to the f2f assessment, even though I explained it wasn't accurate and provided supporting evidence from my GP & consultant. On to appeal now ��

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Like a lot of people, I had the same. In fact the MR response even added another lie, saying I had been seen to pick up both my GSD and Spaniel dogs together lol. Never gonna happen, they weigh 45kg together lol.

Not sure how they can do things like this, but obviously they do.

I kept my MR letter brief on advice from here, but when I requested a tribunal, I added more details, explaining why I met the criteria for different descriptors to the ones proposed by the assessor. I also showed that the assessor contradicted themself, and displayed no understanding of arthritis, autism etc. I didn't say they lied, I said they were mistaken in, for example, recalling exercises I hadn't done (most of them).

I was awarded enhanced mobility and care.

The people at the tribunal were respectful and used the time to clarify things they weren't sure of. It was very very different to the assessor, who was nasty and difficult. However, I was watched leaving the tribunal room (there were lots of ramps which I had real difficulties with and suddenly I heard the head judge (sorry not sure of right term) giving directions on how to get out. He was standing there watching me lol. But I was glad as it meant they could see the assessor must have been blind when she said I didn't have an altered gait and completely ignored the pain I was in.