I need to get it out there because it’s nagging at me and honestly I’m trying to keep busy.
The result of the PIP tribunal was that my appeal was refused, surprise surprise! Of course I barely had five minutes to care about it at the time before I received the worse news π.
Anyway there was some good news in the fact that I finally scored some points to show for the 14 months of effort. I scored 6 points for daily living and 4 points for mobility. You need something like 8 points in either one to get the lower rate of allowance. To succeed would mean more money but more importantly access to more kinds of support.
Ironically (or not really, it’s completely intentional) a lack of receiving support weakens your case for being awarded with PIP. It’s a built-in catch 22 designed to help them ‘win’ (win against who? The evil vulnerable populace who are trying to catch them out!). Their business and remit is simply to refuse it to as many people as possible. They are literally a private company contracted and incentivised by the government to do this. A core building block of a dystopia, right? If only there was a way to remove the current governmentβ¦π.
Anyways, we were always agreed that we’d apply again and Sarah immediately messaged saying we’ll meet up again with Kevin to plan for the next application and come up with a checklist of evidence we need to obtain. One of these is going to be a letter from the doctor which ties together all of the evidence and summarises my current challenges in no uncertain terms. I am glad that it’s all done so that we can begin with that. I’m pretty confident that the next tribunal will be in person instead of over the phone, too (yes, yes, the peril of pandemic predictionβ however we’re talking about at least a year into the future π€¦ββοΈ). If I can succeed then I can actually be financially independent of my parents.
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Does this mean you will be living in the same place for another year? Good Luck
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Thanks! Fortunately not because I was going to become eligible for my own place in August this year anyway (age 35 and living in this area for at least 3 years), plus last Thursday the Salvation Army support worker coincidentally told me that the council have now offered to put me in the next available 1-bedroom place since my birthday is coming up relatively soon (June). So thankfully the main thing is no longer dependant on getting PIP :). I am waiting to hear from the council on this.
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Well, That’s great news!
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Well, supposedly! I have been let down too many times however and by too much misplaced optimism of this kind. It doesn’t matter to me until it actually happens at this point!
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That’s dissapointing. Good on you for committing to start again..
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Well, my needs haven’t changed π.
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Good luck with it.
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Thanks Joanne :). I’ll need it ππ€
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Only to be expected. The system is (wrongly) set up this way as you say. Great that you’re appealing though – pretty much everyone I’ve worked with has been successful on appeal. Trick is keeping going until then.
Hope you’re doing ok my friend π€π€π€
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*applying again not appealing. Just shows how used to using the ‘appeal’ word I am when referencing the DWP ππ€
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Totally. The form is totally rigid too and inevitably doesn’t fit most cases to be begin with which forces you to be dishonest to get what you morally deserve and need π€¦ββοΈ. Anyways my MP is shadow minister of DWP and will be getting some emails :). Thanks for the insights and encouragement!
I am doing ok thanks, persevering in all things :)π.
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Always here for you my friend π΅π€
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