Thanks good luck to you bobI've just had a PIP face to face assessment at home today (for mental health reasons)
The person doing the assessment was a physiotherapist???? you couldn't make it up ...
Hope things turn out ok for your brother in law matey...
As far as I am aware they are "trained" for this assessment. Years ago it was done by GP's but now to cut cost its done by anyone even paramedics earning extra cash. I wonder if I can do it, I was a member of the St Johns years ago.@ukbob so how can a physiotherapist do a 100% accurate assessment on mental health? They cant but what ever they say the DWP take it as the right diagnostic. a physiotherapist wont have a clue in what to look for in mental health cases. If it does not go the way you hope for appeal.
I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.I just hope the assessor some day sits in the same chair with cancer and karma takes place, what comes around.
What qualifications do you need to be a disability assessor?
You may be a nurse, occupational therapist, paramedic or physiotherapist who is looking for a change, for new opportunities, for prospects, and for rewards. You'll: Be a fully qualified healthcare professional. Have a minimum of two years' post-qualification experience (and full registration with HCPC or NMC)
No in fareness I wouldn't it was an anger statement but sometimes you only realise the plight of others when your faced with it yourself.
If she got it wrong then fair play or even if the decision was borderline but to blatantly lie the way she did and not 1 or 2 lies page after page you have to feel she's doing it with a hidden agenda probably doesn't like people who claim benefits.
I'd guess that her training for the assessor's job didn't includ a day were their shown how to lie through their back teeth.
At some point she might just swap chairs and I just hope her assessor give her the same crap she dished out.
My brother in law are making a formal complaint against her and after reading what she wrote she will not have a leg to stand on.
The fookin lying bitch.
You can have whoever you want with you at a tribunal, but they will expect you to answer any questions asked and whoever is with you can take over if you get stuck answering a question and they will allow them a short summing up at the end.Is there no way you can get a welfare rights officer to represent you at the tribunal i believe there only then allowed to ask you certain questions where you know the answer already
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