My daughter is currently waiting for a tribunal date following a failed assessment/MR at the post-16 shift from DLA to PIP.
It’s causing her considerable distress and anxiety. I am her representative at the tribunal.
When we began the switch from DLA, we decided that she should be very involved and she was keen to. However the process has been incredibly draining on her and she suffers from huge anxiety as well as a number of health issues.
Do I need to become her advocate to speak for her in her absence ?
She has two options, she can switch to a Paper hearing where the hearing will be heard in her absence, if she goes down this route then she should make sure that any testimony and evidence that she wants them to consider is with the Tribunal Service before she makes the switch.
Or, she can contact the Tribunal Service to see whether you can attend in her send, the decision lies with the Judge in charge of her appeal.
Gordon
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