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Really do wish they'd update people with how their reconsideration is going. Been waiting 2 months and not heard a thing. Never mind. Doesn't matter that I've lost over £100 a week and now can't afford to give my mum any money to take me to my hospital appointments or shopping. Good thing I was able to purchase the £600 magnifier and £200 insoles to enable me to walk pain free before they decided I wasn't entitled any more.
I thought the idea of PIP was to help people like me who have long term health problems (odd how I qualified under pretty much the same criteria) to become independent. Going to have to phone up on Tuesday if they're open to find out what's going on. And to see what their response to my complaint is. Probably the same as what Atos said to me. |
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#952 |
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Really do wish they'd update people with how their reconsideration is going. Been waiting 2 months and not heard a thing. Never mind. Doesn't matter that I've lost over £100 a week and now can't afford to give my mum any money to take me to my hospital appointments or shopping. Good thing I was able to purchase the £600 magnifier and £200 insoles to enable me to walk pain free before they decided I wasn't entitled any more.
I thought the idea of PIP was to help people like me who have long term health problems (odd how I qualified under pretty much the same criteria) to become independent. Going to have to phone up on Tuesday if they're open to find out what's going on. And to see what their response to my complaint is. Probably the same as what Atos said to me. It really makes me cross as I am just as disabled as I was before but some Capita person getting a bonus to fail me means hardship. I wouldn't mind getting their 24k per year to fail people. But maybe not as I do care and they don't otherwise they wouldn't be doing a degrading job. |
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#953 |
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You could be pretty much be me as you are writing this- losing £100 per week with near enough the same criteria filling as before. I sent off my application yesterday for the third try at pip. First one I gained for 2 years and 2nd I ended up with 4 points only in care after a tribunal. They pretty much had decided before I had entered the room and I got grilled for over 90 minutes.
It really makes me cross as I am just as disabled as I was before but some Capita person getting a bonus to fail me means hardship. I wouldn't mind getting their 24k per year to fail people. But maybe not as I do care and they don't otherwise they wouldn't be doing a degrading job. Nurse Assessors with a conscience do not do the job for long as it compromises their NMC code of conduct |
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#954 |
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Assessors do not get bonuses for 'failing' applicants , case managers maybe but not assessors.
Nurse Assessors with a conscience do not do the job for long as it compromises their NMC code of conduct I struggle to lift and carry even a can weight like soup. It is ridiculous to think I can do a meal etc repeatedly. I know Esa is a different criteria but I am in the support group on that alone (unable to carry 500ml item) And with the swelling that comes with it it would be impossible to do it repeatedly. I know I shall be recording my next pip f-t-f, even at the cost it is worth it to ensure it is a correct interrogation. |
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#955 |
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You could be pretty much be me as you are writing this- losing £100 per week with near enough the same criteria filling as before. I sent off my application yesterday for the third try at pip. First one I gained for 2 years and 2nd I ended up with 4 points only in care after a tribunal. They pretty much had decided before I had entered the room and I got grilled for over 90 minutes.
It really makes me cross as I am just as disabled as I was before but some Capita person getting a bonus to fail me means hardship. I wouldn't mind getting their 24k per year to fail people. But maybe not as I do care and they don't otherwise they wouldn't be doing a degrading job. My disabilities have become worse since I was on DLA and I am in the crap situation of no-one knowing for the most part what the prognosis will be. Finally got through to DWP. Just been awarded enhanced mobility and standard care. I was hoping it would be the other way around. But will leave it. |
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#956 |
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Well done on the award, might it be worth seeing what the mobility scoring was to see if you could fight it to tribunal if you felt like doing it?
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#957 |
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Finally got through to DWP. Just been awarded enhanced mobility and standard care. I was hoping it would be the other way around. But will leave it.
Anyway, you'll qualify for the severe disability premium if you live alone and no-one claims carer's for looking after you. That's another £61.85 pw. You'll need to ring them and get it added to your ESA, and it will be backdated to the date your PIP starts, so should be a good few quid. |
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#958 |
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Well done on the award, might it be worth seeing what the mobility scoring was to see if you could fight it to tribunal if you felt like doing it?
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#959 |
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In a small update I managed to get the 14 day extension on the PIP form, so now it doesn't have to be in until the later part of January. I explained to them that unfortunately my boiler packed up over Christmas and despite engineers coming out 3 days in a row, the fault comes back every so often, and with having the flu & my hydrocephalus playing up, I have been pretty much housebound. The landlord is no longer classing me as priority as I am getting heating every so often, and has booked an engineer for next week.
On the upside I have managed to find a local company that will not only fill out the form for me, but they will also attend any medicals with me if needed, so I do have a bit more hope than what I had when I first got the form through. |
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#960 |
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Join Date: Mar 2016
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It's taken ESA until Tuesday to write and tell me I have an overpayment. But the overpayment team can't find me on the system.
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#961 |
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It's taken ESA until Tuesday to write and tell me I have an overpayment. But the overpayment team can't find me on the system.
There are also other grounds for challenging an overpayment, eg if you were wrongly advised or if the cause of the overpayment was something you could not reasonably have been expected to know about. If it was because you failed to report a change, and you didn't report it because you were in hospital or something, you can challenge the overpayment on the grounds that it would be unreasonable of them to recover it. If the overpayment is correct and recoverable, and you are now entitled to the premium I referred to above, because of your PIP award, you could ask for it to be deducted from the arrears payment of the premium. |
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#962 |
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I've just had an afterthought. If you're in the WRAG group for ESA, and were getting the higher rate of care under DLA, you would have been entitled to the enhanced disability premium (£15.75 pw). You won't be entitled to this now you're only getting standard daily living.
This could be why the overpayment has arisen, and I'd advise you to challenge the PIP decision on the daily living component, especially if you were only a couple of points short of the magic 12 points. Feel free to pm me if you'd like to run through your options in private! |
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