Should I appeal my PIP Decision?

poppy12345

Spoonie_Turtle said:

poppy12345 said:

"no specialist input" yup, that's one they throw at people quite often and would simple be thrown out of a ny Tribunal because it's complete utter nonsense. Many many thousand of people claim PIP without having any specialists imput... myself included.

Buying the aids yourself, can potentially be seen as a want rather than need but don't shoot me because i totally disagree with that complete nonsense.

Now you've had the decision, is seeing the report useful? possibly not but if this gets to Tribunal, you'll see it in with the "bundle" anyway. Although please don't get "sucked" into just concentrating on that report for the MR and Tribunal. As advised on a couple of threads here (as well as on the benefits forum earlier this evening) concentrating on that will not get you a PIP award.

In the MR is it useful to address some of the relevant justifications in the decision letter? Obviously as well as pointing out which descriptors I should score and why.

Yes you can do that, just try not to focus too much on the report because it's not helpful, the same if it gets to Tribunal.

born_again

Muttleythefrog said:

Oh and the mainstream schools (

My wife got that one. 
Question never asked and TBH what that has to do with any descriptor's or  MS conditions is beyond me.
Even if taken as a very weak excuse as unable to plan and follow a route.
Mrs can not drive, has no interest in navigating around, even to places like hospital that are frequent trips. Just leaves it to me.
In fact if I left her in the local town (10 mins away walking) she would not be able to make it back without someone helping her navigate to our house. Even though we do it on a regular basis.

Spoonie_Turtle

Someone at DWP was doing their job! Had a phone call on Wednesday from a DM to ask me a few questions, then she phoned again today to say she'd changed the decision to enhanced for both daily living and mobility!

(Funnily enough I also received a copy of the original assessment report dated last Friday, which is also the day they sent me a text to acknowledge my MR request - a bit odd but not also not cause for complaint.)

I just wish every MR request had the same care and attention given to it and people didn't needlessly end up having to go to tribunal.

DisablednProud

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Someone at DWP was doing their job! Had a phone call on Wednesday from a DM to ask me a few questions, then she phoned again today to say she'd changed the decision to enhanced for both daily living and mobility!

(Funnily enough I also received a copy of the original assessment report dated last Friday, which is also the day they sent me a text to acknowledge my MR request - a bit odd but not also not cause for complaint.)

I just wish every MR request had the same care and attention given to it and people didn't needlessly end up having to go to tribunal.

That's actually amazing, you're very lucky