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PIP Review Prep advice please.
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19 hours 58 minutes ago #313267 by wendy123
PIP Review Prep advice please. was created by wendy123
My follow up questions to my previous post, seem to have been missed for some reason. Hence me creating new post.
I am typing up my answers on additional sheets. Everything is clearly labelled so the assessor and DM knows what question I am answering etc.
The new AR1 form is unambiguous and awful imo.
Please can you advise regarding the first question in each of the activities as to whether it is okay to answer it properly rather than a tick box. I am struggling to answer the other questions under each of the activities without constantly repeating myself and ending up with 3 pages worth of answers for each of the Activities.
I am clued up on the guides and what is required etc, but the reviews section of the guides is a bit unclear to me.
This format of the AR1 just doesn't work for folk with complex physical conditions where the effects of them impacts them in several ways in each activity.
I am using assistive tech so apologies if I am not explaining well. I am stuck.
I am typing up my answers on additional sheets. Everything is clearly labelled so the assessor and DM knows what question I am answering etc.
The new AR1 form is unambiguous and awful imo.
Please can you advise regarding the first question in each of the activities as to whether it is okay to answer it properly rather than a tick box. I am struggling to answer the other questions under each of the activities without constantly repeating myself and ending up with 3 pages worth of answers for each of the Activities.
I am clued up on the guides and what is required etc, but the reviews section of the guides is a bit unclear to me.
This format of the AR1 just doesn't work for folk with complex physical conditions where the effects of them impacts them in several ways in each activity.
I am using assistive tech so apologies if I am not explaining well. I am stuck.
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1 hour 34 minutes ago #313282 by BIS
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Replied by BIS on topic PIP Review Prep advice please.
Hi Wendy123
I have answered your other post about this. It wasn't forgotten - but it wasn't helped by someone else asking a question in the middle of your post. You are free to answer a question however you want. You obviously want to explain - so you should do so. The DWP makes it clear that people should add any additional relevant information they want. I don't think there are many claimants who have a single condition and many have co-morbidities and symptoms that impact in a variety of ways. The way people deal with that varies, and you have to do what feels right for you. I can't make that decision for you. If I said ticking the box would be enough - because that's what the DWP wants - you would then worry about all the information you hadn't included, and you would be furious if you found you had received a low score. That's why people have to decide for themselves how much or how little they put.
The DWP supposedly made the form easier for claimants to fill in, but in reality, it was always designed to make it easier for assessors to read the information quickly, which is why there is less space to complete it. And I am sure they are finding that many claimants override their attempts to limit what people want to say by adding additional sheets.
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I have answered your other post about this. It wasn't forgotten - but it wasn't helped by someone else asking a question in the middle of your post. You are free to answer a question however you want. You obviously want to explain - so you should do so. The DWP makes it clear that people should add any additional relevant information they want. I don't think there are many claimants who have a single condition and many have co-morbidities and symptoms that impact in a variety of ways. The way people deal with that varies, and you have to do what feels right for you. I can't make that decision for you. If I said ticking the box would be enough - because that's what the DWP wants - you would then worry about all the information you hadn't included, and you would be furious if you found you had received a low score. That's why people have to decide for themselves how much or how little they put.
The DWP supposedly made the form easier for claimants to fill in, but in reality, it was always designed to make it easier for assessors to read the information quickly, which is why there is less space to complete it. And I am sure they are finding that many claimants override their attempts to limit what people want to say by adding additional sheets.
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