DLA to PIPS

Does anyone have experience of the process of moving from DLA to PIPS?

[Ydontujustdie]

Yes, be very careful. I was on high rate mobility and medium rate care DLA. I'm only able to function for about 4 hours per day and cannot walk without pain for more than a few yards due to nerve damage from taking part in drug trials in the 80s, I have also had two nervous breakdowns last year from the bastards at the DWP hounding me relentlessly which has caused problems with my cognitive skills and on top of that I'm having investigations for early onset dementia. I can't cook as my hands are too numb from neuropathy and I can't eat a meal due to damage from years of constant vomiting while on the trials,

The ATOS assessor lied on every question on the form despite my having a proffessional advocate with me. My consultants letter was completely ignored. I failed the statutory reconsideration for not using the correct jargon and my Motability car was taken back within 10 days of the decision.

I can't attend the tribunal without a car so I can't defend myself. The charity that was helping me (PACE) has suddenly gone into liquidation and I have to wait before another irganisation I have found can see me.

My transfer from income support to ESA seemed to go smoothly at first but on Xmas eve I had a letter telling me it was being reduced by £25 a week. Now I can buy food and that is all so I'm £400 in debt with my electricity company.

So I was stuck at home with no way to get to get to the shops and I can't walk as far as the nearest bus stop.

Luckily my mother has been putting money into my account but she's in her 70's and all she has is her pension.

I've broken the law to get out and about by buying an electric bicycle that doesn't require any peddling and just works on a hand throttle but I've fallen off it a few times luckily escaping serious injury.

If I could go back in time I would have stopped the assessment when my advocate pointed out that the assessor had not typed what she had been told on a number of occasions and was just given dirty looks by Bridjett, Brede, or Bridey Kelley ( her name keeps changing ) at the deptford assessment offices.

They ask on the form who best to contact for evidence but they do not contact anybody so get letters from your doctors and health care specialists to send in with your application.

My advocate wrote a letter pointing out the lies that were put on the form by the assessor but it was ignored,

A subject access request for the paperwork done by the DWP show that the forms were passed through 5 different DMs so the one who made the final decision is as disconnected from any information about me as possible.

A complaint to ATOS was replied to with a general letter saying how professional their staff were and that they would never lie on the forms despite my pointing out that they have been fined over $16 million by a court in the US and described as a disability denial factory. They were ordered to review all of the cases they had been involved with and have not done any at all, so they can not operate at all in the states.

I got 0 points.