Pip reassessment. Timing and physical examination

Froblymobly

The length of the assessment and whether you refused a physical examination or not are not really issues that are going to change the Decision if you have received an adverse one.

The medication is slightly more serious but only if you can show that it directly led to the wrong recommendation on points being made.

You really need to go back to basics and make sure that you have properly explained your problems with completing the PIP activities in, have you made sure that you understand the criteria?

You need to complete the activities "reliably" and "on the majority of days", if your conditions vary have you explained this in sufficient detail?

If you do tackle the report then stick to issues that are related to your scoring points and if you do feel that you have to comment on the assessor's opinions then try and do so by reference to you evidence to show that they are incorrect.

Gordon

Froblymobly

You mention lots of things in your latest post but don't talk about how these are related to your problems with completing the PIP activities.

So, as an example; you mention you have seen a cardiologist, do these issues impact on your reliably completing the PIP activities, if they do then you should certainly challenge the assessor over their not including this information although you will have had to have suffered from the limitations for more than three months. If the issue is not impacting on your capabilities then it is not one that is going help you score points and you should move on to one that will.

Gordon

Froblymobly

So you have had a Decision, did you score any points?

You've mentioned preparing and cooking a meal, what other activities did you hope to score for?

Think about the things that a DM might consider as alternatives which would allow you to complete the activities, as an example; the might say that you can use a perching stool in the kitchen and that this would reduce your tiredness.

Would your receiving assistance with preparing a meal allow you to complete the activity?

You need to go through the Descriptors for each activity and deal with the issue that they raise.

In more general terms.

Understand that the assessor is offering an opinion when they say that you can do the PIP activities, tackling these head-on is unlikely to be successful, you need to show that the basis of that opinion is founded on incorrect information, so try and refer to your evidence to undermine what they have said.

Also, try and stick to issues that lead to your scoring points, I often hear members referring to the assessors spelling, as an example, whilst it may show a lack of professionalism, raising it as an issue isn't going to help you get an award.

Lastly, make sure that you understand the criteria that you are being assessed against you can put the best case forward that is possible but you won't score points if you do not meet the PIP Descriptors.

Gordon