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PIP rejection.

K-4
10 months ago

I really must vent, today I received my PIP decision.

I request a telephone assessment due to some of my perhaps shared autistic traits, in the assessment I divulged the most intimate aspects of my life, how my Autism effects my life in the most detrimental way.

I explained about my Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and my overwhelming anxiety and stress that damages my health and life in general.

I must say this assessment left me feeling very vulnerable, something I rarely admit to being, I have spent my adult life coping as best I can mimicking NT life and accepted norms to the best of my abilities.

Being at the age I am now it is detrimental to my health and well-being to continue as I have, which quite honestly dispite my best efforts has left me penniless and dependent.

So I plucked up the courage for the second time and request a personal independence Payment from the DWP.

The letter I received from the DWP today left me shaking with rage not just because I was rejected but for how they rejected me.

In the most intentional way, what I had communicated had been ignored or twisted.

With a grand total of 2 points for the entire assessment,  I truly feel dehumanised and dismissed by the whole thing.

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  • 10 months ago

    Hi K4 

    So sorry to hear this. 

    I am also in the same process and just recently sent off my forms. I found the whole process really trying and depressing because of the way you have to describe yourself. I am very much a sort of chin up, get on with it, sort of person. I try to put my difficulties behind me and move on as best I can but it just isn't possible sometimes and having to decare that is hard. 

    I fully expect to be rejected too, and have to appeal, because everything I have read indicates this is the normal process, so I am buckled up for that. 

    Wish we weren't in this position. 

    Good luck with the next steps. 

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  • 10 months ago

    Hi K4 

    So sorry to hear this. 

    I am also in the same process and just recently sent off my forms. I found the whole process really trying and depressing because of the way you have to describe yourself. I am very much a sort of chin up, get on with it, sort of person. I try to put my difficulties behind me and move on as best I can but it just isn't possible sometimes and having to decare that is hard. 

    I fully expect to be rejected too, and have to appeal, because everything I have read indicates this is the normal process, so I am buckled up for that. 

    Wish we weren't in this position. 

    Good luck with the next steps. 

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