Btw if you don’t want to represent yourself at appeal or have a support service etc.
A good pip solicitor will cost you around £300 but when you consider when you win you will get the entire entitlement back dated.
some people on the pip Facebook group have received more than 25k for having a long wait for an appeal date then they had interest and costs added too.
The distance you can reasonably walk is also without pain or distress.
I remember feeling guilty years ago when I was in absolute agony, but looked fit and healthy.
luckily I had MRI and scan results to show the damage.
Now I’m wiser to the system now, I know how they try to analyse people, noting eye contact, how you, behave, sit and stand, picking up a bag, letter etc. They check social media accounts for activity, holiday, birthday, wedding, party pics etc.
one guy was a body builder with a web site from years ago, but now has the same condition as me, they showed him stills of him in competitions and wouldn’t believe they were taken years before, as he had uploaded them a year before from an old lap top he had.
I won’t allow then to put words in my mouth and always bring someone else along for evidence, as some of the things reported in my last assessments was just made up, had no relevance to me and even gave quotes that I hadn’t said?
But I got the max 10 year award so didn’t need to complain, but I could have if I’d needed to.