Just a quick word about getting help, if I can do such a thing as a quick word. ?
I never got anyone to help me with the original PIP form and that was one hell of a mistake.
Reading my previous post you will see I’ve said what my doctor said after losing higher rate mobility by 2 points i.e. “THEY JUST NEED TO LOOK AT YOU”.
I use a pavement disability scooter to go everywhere and apart from getting from the drivers seat of my car to the rear to unload the scooter it would be hard for anyone to ever see me walking/stumbling/tripping.
At the assessment I unloaded the scooter from the boot of the car with my carer wife help 200 metres down the road from the centre, drive into the centre and get up from scooter in to a chair and waited to be called. I did get up and with the help of my walking/stumbling/tripping stick made my way to the toilet all of 5 metres away and under observation of cameras.
I proceed to the interview room on scooter, out of scooter into seat, no walking but was asked to stand again and when the assessor seen my instability quickly told me to sit down again. Interview finishes and I leave on the scooter.
I lost high rate but then went out and got help from a lottery/council/volunteer walk in centre and as soon as they seen me walk (left scooter in car not worth the hassle of unloading back before I got a hoist) the 20 metres guess what they said “I can’t believe they took away your higher rate, THEY JUST GOT TO LOOK AT YOU”.
Even at the tribunal I was asked by judge and doctor how I walk and said “I find it very hard to explain why I can’t walk but I can demonstrate what happens when I do try to walk” and with that with stick in hand I start to get out of the court seat I was IN. They both said with urgency “No don’t walk but try your best to explain”, won’t go into how I did that now but will say this, no one, not one official have ever seen me walk even to this day.
So no matter what else always get help right from the start and I repeat what my helper told me the day I met her “YOU SHOULD HAVE COME TO US EARLIER”.
Say no more.