Appealing PIP

Hi,

I recently asked for some advice about asking for an MR with PIP as I had several reasons I was asking for an MR late. I was assessed 31/05/18.

I know I have genuine reasons for my delayed request, but I'm aware they don't have to accept them. But something I wanted to ask about was if there are any sorts of rules or laws about how you put in a request when it's late.

My specific issue is the 'Going Out' section. I was given 4 points
'Needs prompting to be able to undertake any journey to avoid overwhelming psychological distress to the claimant.'

However, I genuinely believe I should have qualified for:
'Cannot undertake any journey because it would cause overwhelming psychological distress to the claimant. 10 points'

I did show psychological distress when asked to talk through a route in my assessment and everything myself and my CPN talked about advised that I can't *reliably* undertake any journey because of overwhelming psychological distress

I'm struggling to explain what I mean but I am wondering how I go about the appeal & explaining my reasons when the assessment was a year ago. Do I explain how I met the descriptor at the time, or do I talk about meeting it in the time that has passed since? Very recently (past 2 months) I've been pushing the boundaries more to go out and I don't want to portray a false image to DWP, but when I was assessed and for a long time after, I was taken everywhere by my mother or my CPN & experienced significant distress even when taken out by them

I hope I've been able to get the point across as I've found it quite difficult to explain

Thanks

Clare

Thank you for that information Gordon, that's helped a lot as I was really confused about whether I needed to also justify/ talk about present day as well as the assessment a year ago.

I do have the report & the problem is that the assessor completely omitted information that myself and my CPN gave to her and that I actually didn't answer the 'planning a route' question because I got so upset and distressed so she told me I didn't need to answer.

Is there a specific rule/ law that I could cite about it being based on back in the time of the assessment? I have a lot of paranoia about communicating with DWP and am fearful that they'll end up telling me I need to talk about the here and now as opposed to just the time of the assessment even though that's their own rule. So just wondered if there was a specific handbook line I could quote or something like that?

Thanks for your help, Gordon

Just tell them the truth and explain things you can/can't do and why- however daft or embarrassing-.