Am I On Facebook And Do I Wear Glasses (Pip Assessor Question)

Forest63

I am deeply concerned with the questions I got asked near the end of my assessment on the 9th-October-2024.
Just a few minutes before my assessment was almost done. The lady asked me. 'Do I go on Facebook, and do I wear glasses?' My reply was. I do go on Facebook, but not often. I only go onto my personal page 5 times a year if that, and yes I do wear glasses. I know what that person has done (even though I cannot prove it). She has gone on to Facebook. Looked for someone which has the same name as me and with someone wearing glasses, and then assumed that the person she has decided to think that she had found me. Also I had a very bad fall down our stairs just over 8 years ago. Which caused quite a lot of injuries, which now has left me with life changing injuries. to which I am in constant pain. Sleepless nights. The person that did my assessment. Has put in my report. I fell down the stairs 23 years ago.
Most of what she has put in the report is not true.  I also suffer with Severe Aggressive Depression. Of which she has not put down on the report.  
So now I have had my PIP stopped and that I depended on.

I would like to know. What action can I take? My wife on my behalf has asked for a reconsideration, but is very unlikely I will start to receive PIP as normal.

MattMattMattUK

Forest63 said:

I am deeply concerned with the questions I got asked near the end of my assessment on the 9th-October-2024.
Just a few minutes before my assessment was almost done. The lady asked me. 'Do I go on Facebook, and do I wear glasses?' My reply was. I do go on Facebook, but not often. I only go onto my personal page 5 times a year if that, and yes I do wear glasses. I know what that person has done (even though I cannot prove it). She has gone on to Facebook. Looked for someone which has the same name as me and with someone wearing glasses, and then assumed that the person she has decided to think that she had found me. Also I had a very bad fall down our stairs just over 8 years ago. Which caused quite a lot of injuries, which now has left me with life changing injuries. to which I am in constant pain. Sleepless nights. The person that did my assessment. Has put in my report. I fell down the stairs 23 years ago.
Most of what she has put in the report is not true.  I also suffer with Severe Aggressive Depression. Of which she has not put down on the report.  
So now I have had my PIP stopped and that I depended on.

I would like to know. What action can I take? My wife on my behalf has asked for a reconsideration, but is very unlikely I will start to receive PIP as normal.

The vast majority of mandatory reconsiderations are upheld so the odds of you receiving PIP again are high, the issue is that they can take some time. You need to document what is incorrect on the assessment, but my understanding would be that as far as PIP is concerned when you fell down the stairs would be an irrelevance, the question as far as the scoring is concerned is what you are capable of now. 

Have you completed the PIP scoring objectively and seen how you scored and how you differed from the report as issued by the assessor?
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/Global/Migrated_Documents/adviceguide/pip-9-table-of-activities-descriptors-and-points.pdf

Spoonie_Turtle

What you need to do is challenge the decision.  Have you received the decision letter?

As above, only a minority of Mandatory Reconsiderations succeed (26% last quarter) so you may have to take this all the way to tribunal.  However if you are thorough in your MR request, that lays the groundwork for an appeal if you need to pursue it that far, and it gives you the best chance at the MR stage.

You need to focus on the descriptors you think you should have scored and why.  Unless things have significantly changed since your last award, this can be based on what you were receiving before if you agreed it was the correct level of award.

You can refute reasoning used in the decision which will almost certainly be based on the assessment report, but complaining about the assessment itself is a separate issue, it won't get you a PIP award.