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PIP assessor texting...
Bambinobubba
Posts: 3 Newbie
Hello everyone
I hope you can help. I am anxious. I used to get DLA indefinitely and I let this lapse December 2018 because I wasn't feeling well enough to deal with it. They kept contacting me to offer home visits and even turned up to the door when I'd cancelled one and I was in a state and didn't let her in. Obviously I lost the DLA. I've tried to exist on nothing since and I can't afford the private therapy I used to get and I've gotten more and more agoraphobic and my other conditions have gotten worse as a result.
I was afraid to reapply for PIP but reached the point where I had little choice but to anymore. I put in the claim in mid July and sent evidence of conditions and professional contact details etc. I requested a home assessment if I had to have one.
I had an answerphone message last week when feeling very rough and it was a dwp assessor, apparently. It was a mobile number. I sent a text message asking when I had to have an assessment and they tried to phone again. I asked them to write to me instead and then they text asking if i would have support for a home visit. I replied saying I couldn't talk on the phone at the moment and that I don't have enough support lately, but could try and find some of they could tell me when but asked if it had to be done or if it could be written. I also said I'd lost my DLA as a result of this issue. Ive heard nothing else since.
I'm a bit confused if that's normal and as to what's happening next. I don't really know what to do and assume I just have to wait? Quite anxious it might be said I refused an assessment, but I didn't. I suppose I have evidence of that though.
Any advice welcomed, anyway. Tha nks.:eek:
I hope you can help. I am anxious. I used to get DLA indefinitely and I let this lapse December 2018 because I wasn't feeling well enough to deal with it. They kept contacting me to offer home visits and even turned up to the door when I'd cancelled one and I was in a state and didn't let her in. Obviously I lost the DLA. I've tried to exist on nothing since and I can't afford the private therapy I used to get and I've gotten more and more agoraphobic and my other conditions have gotten worse as a result.
I was afraid to reapply for PIP but reached the point where I had little choice but to anymore. I put in the claim in mid July and sent evidence of conditions and professional contact details etc. I requested a home assessment if I had to have one.
I had an answerphone message last week when feeling very rough and it was a dwp assessor, apparently. It was a mobile number. I sent a text message asking when I had to have an assessment and they tried to phone again. I asked them to write to me instead and then they text asking if i would have support for a home visit. I replied saying I couldn't talk on the phone at the moment and that I don't have enough support lately, but could try and find some of they could tell me when but asked if it had to be done or if it could be written. I also said I'd lost my DLA as a result of this issue. Ive heard nothing else since.
I'm a bit confused if that's normal and as to what's happening next. I don't really know what to do and assume I just have to wait? Quite anxious it might be said I refused an assessment, but I didn't. I suppose I have evidence of that though.
Any advice welcomed, anyway. Tha nks.:eek:
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Can anyone help?0
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I would call them back.
They cant help you if you keep refusing to talk to them when they call.
If you aren't able to have a full conversation could you call them and pass to phone over to a friend? carer?
The not knowing is only making you more anxious.Last bet : 26th Oct 2006:j Debt free 25th Feb 2008:j Living "my" dream:T0 -
Its not a refusal, its an inability0
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