Calling time on PIP
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Hey, some help here using one of your previous user names....
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5135957
and another re your blue badge
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5198504
proof of posting
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5146955"Do not attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by incompetence" - rogerblack0 -
rockingbilly wrote: »I would look a complete idiot at a Tribunal if I was asked to explain why I am challenging my own claim."Do not attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by incompetence" - rogerblack0
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Hey, some help here using one of your previous user names....
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5135957
and another re your blue badge
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5198504
proof of posting
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=51469550 -
Here you go
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/sick-or-disabled-people-and-carers/attendance-allowance/claiming-attendance-allowance/help-with-attendance-allowance-form/
To be honest given that you have been claiming DLA for years you should have a pretty good idea re AA - which is, in general terms, much the same as the care element of DLA
ETA. There is no lower rate with AA (the cooking test)0 -
Here you go
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/sick-or-disabled-people-and-carers/attendance-allowance/claiming-attendance-allowance/help-with-attendance-allowance-form/
To be honest given that you have been claiming DLA for years you should have a pretty good idea re AA - which is, in general terms, much the same as the care element of DLA
ETA. There is no lower rate with AA (the cooking test)
I no longer have a DLA award as you know. All I can remember when I last filled out a DLA claim pack was that I made reference to the difficulties that I had how often I had them and how I managed to circumvent them. What I do know is that my GP sent the DWP a factual report to them and on the strength of that report I was awarded HRM & MRC indefinitely.
I do however have to be honest and say that I was gobsmacked with what they said I was entitled to and to this day I still can't work it out why they awarded. But hey I wasn't one to complain.
That link is a bit complicated to follow. Do they really expect me to time everything day and night? And then keep a 24/7 diary of events?
I'll have to get someone to fill the form in for me like most people do.0 -
Point of the diary
Here's a copy of the form
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/540578/AA1-interactive-claim-pack.pdf
Have a good look and see how often it asks for the number of times a day you do/have trouble with things. When I fill in the form with someone who hasn't done a diary more guesswork/estimation comes in to play0 -
It's no great loss ,as in another thread you say you give it all away to family.0
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rockingbilly wrote: »Thanks
I no longer have a DLA award as you know. All I can remember when I last filled out a DLA claim pack was that I made reference to the difficulties that I had how often I had them and how I managed to circumvent them. What I do know is that my GP sent the DWP a factual report to them and on the strength of that report I was awarded HRM & MRC indefinitely.
I do however have to be honest and say that I was gobsmacked with what they said I was entitled to and to this day I still can't work it out why they awarded. But hey I wasn't one to complain.
That link is a bit complicated to follow. Do they really expect me to time everything day and night? And then keep a 24/7 diary of events?
I'll have to get someone to fill the form in for me like most people do."Do not attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by incompetence" - rogerblack0 -
Muttleythefrog wrote: »Regarding the bolded.. the decision letter should have told you....'we have awarded you x because you need y'. I would have requested the GP factual report at the time and it may have helped understand if not also have had potential future use. But in all honesty.. I don't believe your claims here any more than others you make.
Of course it said why. I was gobsmacked with the level of the award. I could not in all honesty match the reasons for the award with how I saw myself - if that makes any sense.
I found out about the report that the DLA people asked my GP to complete when I asked for a copy of my medical file from the GP - a copy was in the pack that he had sent.
I still have it - dated Nov 2011. Didn't see that there was any relevance in it for the PIP claim as the two benefits are totally different in the same way that Attendance Allowance differs from DLA.0 -
Hopefully someone will call time on you!0
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