DWP and fitness

50Twuncle wrote: »

It must be so stressful - not even knowing whether you are going to be cross-examined ?

My understanding is that it is rare for DWP to represent in addition to their paper submission to ESA and PIP appeal tribunals. From reading in those small numbers cases where people have come to places like this to describe such... I have a couple of general thoughts. One is that the DWP rep tends not to be adversarial to a great degree and largely because there is little they themselves can add either through knowledge or in addition to paper evidence they rely on. Two, in some cases the DWP rep has been somewhat supportive of the claimant through concessions regarding evidence.

My general view would be that DWP representing themselves in person may not be a particularly bad thing... offering possibly a board against which to fire say a poorly crafted face to face medical report and forcing a human admission of failings... or acceptance by the other side of the balance of evidence of disabilities in the face of those independently trying to judge such.

There are posters around here who due to their work may have significant experience or testimony coming to them regarding DWP representation at tribunals. It'd be interesting if they have a variant view (to my anecdotal amateur one) on this issue.

At my PIP assessment we talked about climbing (mostly indoor climbing wall) and looking after my dogs, loving the outdoors etc. I was appropriately awarded enhanced rate for both parts.

silverwhistle wrote: »

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