Pip decision - declined

My PIP assesment was a farce.

My disabilities and problems with life are mental.  So the assessor who was an ex paramedic went through all the physical sections and terminated the assessment just before we got to the mental questions claiming he didn't have the time to look at these.

I would compare it to going to a doctor complaining about a pain in the right hand.  So the doctor examines the left hand and decides that you are in perfect health.

You are right. It was a farce. An incomplete assessment that I feel the Decision Maker should have picked up on. If an appeal is made, that is something that definitely needs to be mentioned - the fact that the assessor who carried out the assessment had told you he didn't have time for the mental health part of the assessment. 

It was a farce, I appealed and lost 

For those of us unfamiliar with the PIP questionnaire and assessment.  The first half is purely physical, the second half is about social and mental disabilities.

So at my assessment the examiner went slowly in great detail into the physical side.

• Can I walk ten paces.
• Can I lift my arm above my head
• Can I make a fist
• Can I tie my shoe laces
• Can I boil a kettle
• Can I use a microwave
• Do I need help getting in and out of the bath
• Do I need help travelling
• Do I need help in and out of bed.
• Do I need help getting dressed 

Then at the stroke of one hour terminated the interview saying he's got another appointment.

All my social and mental disabilities were never considered.

From a financial point of view, you may not need the money, but I'm fairly certain that you are still entitled to PIP as a result of how your mental health affects you.

I appreciate that as you are currently full-time job, albeit a temporary one, your free time is obviously limited. However, I do feel it might be worth seeing if you can have a discussion with a welfare rights officer via Citizens Advice if you haven't already done so.

At the moment I am in a full time, although temporary job, working through an employment agency, so I don't need the PIP.  But just before I applied for PIP, I had been fired from a job and at my dismissal hearing I had been described as totally lacking in social skills, unable to work either alone or with others and having bizarre and unpredictable  behaviour.

At the moment I am in a full time, although temporary job, working through an employment agency, so I don't need the PIP.  But just before I applied for PIP, I had been fired from a job and at my dismissal hearing I had been described as totally lacking in social skills, unable to work either alone or with others and having bizarre and unpredictable  behaviour.

From a financial point of view, you may not need the money, but I'm fairly certain that you are still entitled to PIP as a result of how your mental health affects you.

I appreciate that as you are currently full-time job, albeit a temporary one, your free time is obviously limited. However, I do feel it might be worth seeing if you can have a discussion with a welfare rights officer via Citizens Advice if you haven't already done so.