PIP assessment - advice

HillStreetBlues

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

@Muttleythefrog
Agree with your calculation 14 for each, you did a great breakdown.

But will the decision maker go against the report? I am stressing out now lol. 

Personally I can't see anyway that it won't be rubber stamped by a DM.

What does that mean? lol. 

It means if it was me, I'll be planning to spend the money
I can't see anyway that you won't get enhanced (max) award for both.

Jack_bauer24

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

@Muttleythefrog
Agree with your calculation 14 for each, you did a great breakdown.

But will the decision maker go against the report? I am stressing out now lol. 

Personally I can't see anyway that it won't be rubber stamped by a DM.

What does that mean? lol. 

It means if it was me, I'll be planning to spend the money
I can't see anyway that you won't get enhanced (max) award for both.

Haha, thank you for your advice  

Muttleythefrog

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

@Muttleythefrog
Agree with your calculation 14 for each, you did a great breakdown.

But will the decision maker go against the report? I am stressing out now lol. 

Personally I can't see anyway that it won't be rubber stamped by a DM.

What does that mean? lol. 

It means if it was me, I'll be planning to spend the money
I can't see anyway that you won't get enhanced (max) award for both.

Haha, thank you for your advice  

A lot of people say a lot of things on the internet and social media is a horror show of false claims and poor information... the decision maker is highly likely to agree with the report and at face value the report looks comprehensive and one a decision maker would happily rely on. As above... if I were you I'd start thinking about how you might use the extra income to improve your quality of life. Often for disabled people who have struggled and lacked support it can be quite difficult to figure this out... and some find that a bit of a problem because they worry they'll end up with too much savings to get Universal Credit and other help. So I would definitely focus on positives... what can this money do for you... aids.. adaptions.. carer..  facilities... and then more leisure type activities perhaps. Also consider whether a blue badge will be of any use as your local authority would automatically award you one if you applied and did indeed get Mobility descriptor 1E (Activity 11). Forward thinking... you've done a great job for your application clearly.

Jack_bauer24

Muttleythefrog said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

@Muttleythefrog
Agree with your calculation 14 for each, you did a great breakdown.

But will the decision maker go against the report? I am stressing out now lol. 

Personally I can't see anyway that it won't be rubber stamped by a DM.

What does that mean? lol. 

It means if it was me, I'll be planning to spend the money
I can't see anyway that you won't get enhanced (max) award for both.

Haha, thank you for your advice  

A lot of people say a lot of things on the internet and social media is a horror show of false claims and poor information... the decision maker is highly likely to agree with the report and at face value the report looks comprehensive and one a decision maker would happily rely on. As above... if I were you I'd start thinking about how you might use the extra income to improve your quality of life. Often for disabled people who have struggled and lacked support it can be quite difficult to figure this out... and some find that a bit of a problem because they worry they'll end up with too much savings to get Universal Credit and other help. So I would definitely focus on positives... what can this money do for you... aids.. adaptions.. carer..  facilities... and then more leisure type activities perhaps. Also consider whether a blue badge will be of any use as your local authority would automatically award you one if you applied and did indeed get Mobility descriptor 1E (Activity 11). Forward thinking... you've done a great job for your application clearly.

Thank you for putting my anxities at ease. I am thinking about what to spend lol. Also, the blue badge is nothing of interest to me as I don't drive. Also, I just like to say again, thank you for all your advice today  

Spoonie_Turtle

Jack_bauer24 said:

Muttleythefrog said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

@Muttleythefrog
Agree with your calculation 14 for each, you did a great breakdown.

But will the decision maker go against the report? I am stressing out now lol. 

Personally I can't see anyway that it won't be rubber stamped by a DM.

What does that mean? lol. 

It means if it was me, I'll be planning to spend the money
I can't see anyway that you won't get enhanced (max) award for both.

Haha, thank you for your advice  

A lot of people say a lot of things on the internet and social media is a horror show of false claims and poor information... the decision maker is highly likely to agree with the report and at face value the report looks comprehensive and one a decision maker would happily rely on. As above... if I were you I'd start thinking about how you might use the extra income to improve your quality of life. Often for disabled people who have struggled and lacked support it can be quite difficult to figure this out... and some find that a bit of a problem because they worry they'll end up with too much savings to get Universal Credit and other help. So I would definitely focus on positives... what can this money do for you... aids.. adaptions.. carer..  facilities... and then more leisure type activities perhaps. Also consider whether a blue badge will be of any use as your local authority would automatically award you one if you applied and did indeed get Mobility descriptor 1E (Activity 11). Forward thinking... you've done a great job for your application clearly.

Also, the blue badge is nothing of interest to me as I don't drive. 

Just so you know, the Blue Badge can be used whenever you travel by car even if you're not driving.  Useful even if you only travel by car - including taxi - e.g. to medical appointments, picking up prescriptions, etc.

I'm not trying to say you *should* get one, because I don't know your life, just making sure your decision is based on correct information

Jack_bauer24

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

Muttleythefrog said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

@Muttleythefrog
Agree with your calculation 14 for each, you did a great breakdown.

But will the decision maker go against the report? I am stressing out now lol. 

Personally I can't see anyway that it won't be rubber stamped by a DM.

What does that mean? lol. 

It means if it was me, I'll be planning to spend the money
I can't see anyway that you won't get enhanced (max) award for both.

Haha, thank you for your advice  

A lot of people say a lot of things on the internet and social media is a horror show of false claims and poor information... the decision maker is highly likely to agree with the report and at face value the report looks comprehensive and one a decision maker would happily rely on. As above... if I were you I'd start thinking about how you might use the extra income to improve your quality of life. Often for disabled people who have struggled and lacked support it can be quite difficult to figure this out... and some find that a bit of a problem because they worry they'll end up with too much savings to get Universal Credit and other help. So I would definitely focus on positives... what can this money do for you... aids.. adaptions.. carer..  facilities... and then more leisure type activities perhaps. Also consider whether a blue badge will be of any use as your local authority would automatically award you one if you applied and did indeed get Mobility descriptor 1E (Activity 11). Forward thinking... you've done a great job for your application clearly.

Also, the blue badge is nothing of interest to me as I don't drive. 

Just so you know, the Blue Badge can be used whenever you travel by car even if you're not driving.  Useful even if you only travel by car - including taxi - e.g. to medical appointments, picking up prescriptions, etc.

I'm not trying to say you *should* get one, because I don't know your life, just making sure your decision is based on correct information

Hi, ok thank you, I will give it some thought  

Jack_bauer24

I got something else to ask, when I get my PIP, will some part of my Universal Credit like for example rent element, will that be stopped? will I have to pay rent out of my PIP or will I get full rent as normal as UC pay my Housing Association full rent direct which they get my rent payment on the same day that I get paid. Will I have to pay rent from my PIP? 

Sorry, I don't know how this PIP works as I never claimed it before in my life lol. 

HillStreetBlues

Jack_bauer24 said:

I got something else to ask, when I get my PIP, will some part of my Universal Credit like for example rent element, will that be stopped? will I have to pay rent out of my PIP or will I get full rent as normal as UC pay my Housing Association full rent direct which they get my rent payment on the same day that I get paid. Will I have to pay rent from my PIP? 

Sorry, I don't know how this PIP works as I never claimed it before in my life lol. 

Having PIP can increase UC in certain circumstances, it can never decrease UC.
But a build up of PIP money (not including any back payment for 12 months) is still counted as capital, so if your all capital increases to over £6k  then there will be a deduction from UC. 

Danien

poppy12345 said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

Someone on Facebook have told me that the decision maker doesn't go off the reports and I can still get declined, is this true? I am so stressed now lol. 

Oh dear, those awful FB groups again.  If it was me I'd be clicking "leave group" and never return. 

Yes I had to do this on a group I was on for the rare illness I have. People were often asking advice about PIP and ESA and as an ex welfare rights adviser I tried to help, but would get shouted down by people who believed rumours and theories. Can't say how many times I tried to gently point out to people who gave the 'fill in the form about your worst day' advice, that this isn't right (what if you have a worst day once a week, it's benefit fraud, and having sat in an IUC with a cluent who did that, not a pleasantexperiencefor them), and explaining about giving an impression of the majority of the time and about safely, reliably, repeatedly etc. People got really really nasty about it, so much I left the group.

Danien

Jack_bauer24 said:

poppy12345 said:

Jack_bauer24 said:

Someone on Facebook have told me that the decision maker doesn't go off the reports and I can still get declined, is this true? I am so stressed now lol. 

Oh dear, those awful FB groups again.  If it was me I'd be clicking "leave group" and never return. 

Haha, so is it not true then? do decision maker go with the assessor report? 

99% of the time they go with the assessor report. That's what it's there for - for a health professional to establish what points you score. To ignore it without good reason is unheard of. Like has already been said, they'd only do that if there was a serious problem with the report and yours looks fine to me.