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2 days 1 hour ago #313172 by Amanda
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Dear sir/madam
I get mobility low rate on pip
I have health conditions that affect my daily living but get turned down every time I ask for my claim to be looked into
I have type one diabetes no hypo awareness
Addisons disease
Stage 4 kidney disease
Under active thyroid
Deaf wear hearing aids in both ears
Suffer with anxiety and depression on high dose medication
Can you give me any advice
I get mobility low rate on pip
I have health conditions that affect my daily living but get turned down every time I ask for my claim to be looked into
I have type one diabetes no hypo awareness
Addisons disease
Stage 4 kidney disease
Under active thyroid
Deaf wear hearing aids in both ears
Suffer with anxiety and depression on high dose medication
Can you give me any advice
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6 hours 32 minutes ago #313190 by BIS
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Hi Amanda
When you last had a review, did you ring the DWP afterwards and ask for a copy of the PA4 (The assessor's report)? If you didn't, that should give you more information about why you are not getting the award you are hoping for. Did you use our guides to complete your form so you understand what the assessors are looking for. They are not so much interested in your conditions per se, but how the conditions affect your daily living and mobility.
Let me just take one thing - you suffer from deafness because you have hearing aids in both ears. You should always get 1 point for having two hearing aids, but after that, they need to know how your deafness affects you, because they know that, depending on the hearing loss, it will vary from one person to another. For instance, does your deafness affect your ability to communicate with others? You may already feel isolated because of your anxiety and depression, but the hearing loss has made it worse. (Of course, you could have had the anxiety and depression before the hearing loss - only you know the answer to that). Do you have problems with alarms? What if you take your hearing aids out to shower - can you then hear a fire alarm? Do you have trouble cooking a meal if you can't heart alarms or a microwave pinging at the end of a cycle. This means your deafness has safety issues. Does the lack of hearing increase your depression? etc. etc. Forgive me if you put all this sort of information on your form - but don't ever assume that they will award you points because you have certain conditions. There are plenty of people who have similar conditions, and one person will be awarded points and another won't, and the difference can be the severity, or it may be just the way the claimant described their difficulties on their form. I'm not saying you have to talk about each condition individually against every question, but they need to know how and where particular things impact you and an assessor won't guess - they need to be told.
BIS
When you last had a review, did you ring the DWP afterwards and ask for a copy of the PA4 (The assessor's report)? If you didn't, that should give you more information about why you are not getting the award you are hoping for. Did you use our guides to complete your form so you understand what the assessors are looking for. They are not so much interested in your conditions per se, but how the conditions affect your daily living and mobility.
Let me just take one thing - you suffer from deafness because you have hearing aids in both ears. You should always get 1 point for having two hearing aids, but after that, they need to know how your deafness affects you, because they know that, depending on the hearing loss, it will vary from one person to another. For instance, does your deafness affect your ability to communicate with others? You may already feel isolated because of your anxiety and depression, but the hearing loss has made it worse. (Of course, you could have had the anxiety and depression before the hearing loss - only you know the answer to that). Do you have problems with alarms? What if you take your hearing aids out to shower - can you then hear a fire alarm? Do you have trouble cooking a meal if you can't heart alarms or a microwave pinging at the end of a cycle. This means your deafness has safety issues. Does the lack of hearing increase your depression? etc. etc. Forgive me if you put all this sort of information on your form - but don't ever assume that they will award you points because you have certain conditions. There are plenty of people who have similar conditions, and one person will be awarded points and another won't, and the difference can be the severity, or it may be just the way the claimant described their difficulties on their form. I'm not saying you have to talk about each condition individually against every question, but they need to know how and where particular things impact you and an assessor won't guess - they need to be told.
BIS
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