Risk of repetitiveness in descriptors.

Hi All

Coming down to the final hurdle of the MR..I hope.

When challenging a DM's decision and basically re-submitting you descriptors, is it advisable to
keep saying in every descriptor 'due to unsteadiness I can't walk..' for lets say preparing food,
bathing etc.. Or is it better (again as an example) to just mention 'unsteadiness I can't walk' in
the descriptor for 'moving around' and then just say 'X can't bathe/prepare food
because of difficulties in moving around'


I hope you get the drift, but if you don't please just ask. As ever many thanks in advance - Paul.

I found it is better to repeat yourself and drum it into their(DWP) heads rather than rely on them understanding. You live with your condition constantly...the decision maker does not.

I heard the phrase 'you have to spoon feed it to them'....thats probably not far off.

Thanks BIS.. before I go any further with this MR, the most important question didn't crops my mind till now, and hopefully Gary can pipe in as well..

In your experience why do MR's have such a high rejection rate?

As always, thanks BIS.

Hi Paul

I kept repeating everything in detail, like BIS said you treat it like they know absolutely nothing about the subject. As the saying goes Tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them.