Cancelled home visit by Atos

How long does a F2F PIP assessment take?

Can you refuse to be examined or are they allowed to hurt you?

Why? Because I was told that Atos want to see if you can push through the pain but I thought
that wasn't allowed.

I had my f2f a couple of weeks ago. I had it at home from ATOS. It took about an hour and three-quarters but he did say this was considerably longer than usual as I have quite a few medical coditions. He was actually very nice and very fair. Most of it was just answering questions. He had seen me get up and walk as I had to go to the loo halfway through.

For the physical, he said he could see I was exhausted so wouldn't ask me to get up, he would demonstrate the movements and ask me how far I could do them. The only actual things he asked me to do were to grip his hands and pinch my thumb and fingers together.

I had been dreading the whole thing but it was much easier than I expected. Had he asked me to do anything I couldn't, I would simply have politely refused and explained why but it didn't even come up.

I got it straight from the horse's mouth and was told this was the F2F assessment!

Mine was nearly 2 hours, but the 2 people before me were only about 20 minutes. I asked Gordon if you can read anything into the length of time you are in there and he said you cannot.