I only suffer a small amount of pain but do suffer instant fatigue when inserting myself to walk and something that does not get mentioned is how long it takes to walk 20 metres or what’s the distance you can walk and here I will try to explain?
I was lucky in my tribunal that a law firm who were training future lawyers took up my case and although my trainee lawyer was just that she was under supervision of a fully qualified solicitor/lawyer.
My downfall with the assessment was not with how many steps without pain but with how long time wise those steps would take and the DWP came up with all sorts of mathematical wool pulling bulls muck and came to a conclusion that I could walk a couple of hundred metres in 5 minutes and that, if true, would be beyond my wildest dreams.
Back to the time I take to walk any distance, a couple of days before my court case for the tribrunal I had a phone call from the fully qualified solicitor asking me about the distance and time I took to walk 20 metres and now by this time I had timed myself at about 5 minutes to walk 20 metres but if I rest at 20 for a few minutes I might walk another 20 but that 20 would take me 10 to 15 minutes.
Now heres the important bit that never gets mention, the solicitor asked “do you walked 20 metres without stopping” and I said “oh no, I have to stop to get my balance and recompose myself” and he said “so how many steps do you take before you stop regardless of how long you stop for” and I said “about 3 to 5 metres, sometimes a little bit more, sometimes less” and he said “in law how far you can walk before you stop to rest or recompose yourself is how far you can walk” so in my case in the eyes of the law I can walk 3 to 5 metres on a average day and just wished I was armed with that information before the assessment.
@vinalspin, love your explanation of “MR” and “Mandatory Rejection” summed it up just right for me. ?