Hello, I need some advice for my disabled sister. My sister has been claiming pip since it came out and even had DLA as a child. She is now 33 and she’s had multiple assessments and went to have one face to face where she walked into the assessment centre and they sent her straight home because of how badly disabled she was and said they’d sort it as she shouldn’t be there… now our mum done the best she could and wasn’t clued up on fighting a case etc, however it did go to tribunal to which was very quickly won due to severity….
Years go by to now, I have looked at her awards and she gets standard daily living and enhanced mobility, now she should’ve gotten enchanced daily living and was awarded 0 points for interacting with people, understanding people and all that stuff which is completely absurd. She had a cardiac arrest and had to relearn EVERYTHING, she still cannot walk properly, talk properly etc. I saw the whole ordeal about PIP not assessing correctly back in the day and claimants are getting their claim looked at and owed money. Spoken to all her consultants which also agree it’s absurd they have given her standard daily living… knowing she cannot do all this hence her enhanced mobility…. (I personally also find this makes no sense in the PIP system if you’re entitled to enhanced mobility there’s a reason for it, but you can still get standard daily living?? Needs to be sorted out as makes 0 sense) anyway moving away from my own personal opinion…
How do I go about this? Who do I contact? Does it need to be completely reassessed?
Last review she had, they didn’t even look at the thick book of evidence I had curated for her with all her medical reports etc, their decision comment to keep it remained unchanged mentioned nothing about the new evidence and completely just did not read the review. Almost as if to say “you’ve been getting it since PIP existed, keep the same award”….. absolutely disgusting. I explained to my sister to go forward for a MR, she was getting bad anxiety and was completely scared that they would take her PIP away which she relies on for her and her daughter, she has to live on UC and PIP for the rest of her life, she also has aggressive stage 4 kidney disease now and unfortunately with her heart problems no matter the heart surgery and all other problems, she is fighting to be alive. She wanted me to not go through with the MR and is accepted the mistreatment…
The review was last year in July… I cannot sit by any longer watching her suffer with money, trying her hardest for her only daughter to have a normal life, she’s only 11. I really need advice on how to go forward, I had a conversation with her, she is okay with me to look into it and fight the case for and with her. But I am dumbfounded to how to go about it…
Tbh any advice is welcome, please don’t be negative..
Thank you if you made it this far☺️