– just looking at my niece you can tell how bad her problems are. No further assessment is required. It is a brutal process going through an assessment, it is torture.
Hi Ade, just wished that statement was true because when I lost the higher rate and approached my doctor for help, a doctor by the way that was new to me and I’d never met before, guess what he said when I explained why I can’t walk, he said “they only got to look at you” and I heard the exact same statement when I asked my local help people as soon as they saw me.
It’s not just down to the assessors as there not the ones that make the decisions but all I got from the DWP at MR was “our assessors are professional and we stand by their decisions” and no matter how much or how many times times I explain to them how wrong they were I’d just get that same answer “we stand by their decisions”, and their nothing more than cowards hiding behind their computers.
They were scalded by the judge and doctor at my tribunal and the judge said to me in court he was so put out he was sending his report to the DWP via fax from the court, there and then.
I get a letter a few days later from DWP saying “We’ve decided to award you higher rate” and I had to laugh with the “we’ve decided”.??
Anyway anyone who feels they’ve been short changed by the DWP really need to go to tribunal and yes God knows I know it is a stressful process but I had the last laugh because not only did I get higher rate reinstated I also got the care allowances moved from middle rate to high rate so they lost big time in the end, oh yes, I also got maximum 10 years allowance too after the judge said and I quote “it would be inappropriate to put a time limit on Mr Chris’s award”.