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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I can barely walk many days and used to have DLA, but even my DLA it required a tribunal to issue an award on both occasions, the second time the chair even wrote a letter to the DWP saying their stubborness was wasting resources as my case was an easy decision. My area has been running PIP for a couple of years and given that PIP has made it significantly harder to claim for mobility I simply didnt bother.
I know its only my opinion but as an example DLA used 50 metres as a guide to decide if someone is virtually unable to walk, this got reduced to 20 metres for PIP and the only sense that makes is for accountants. Can anyone say that someone who can walk 40 metres unhindered is less disabled than someone who can walk 20 metres? both are very tiny distances.
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Sorry to hear that the DWP put you through this.
Whilst it is believed that this new system is designed to put people off claiming, I would urge you to try for PIP as this is exactly the outcome that Cameron wanted when he introduced it.
Whilst it's true that a lot of claims are turned down and that the DWP rarely change their decision at the Mandatory Consideration stage, when it goes to the tribunal stage the success rate is very good when independent people become involved.
As a result, the scrapping of DLA is not producing the savings expected (people are less likely to get help with mobility, but more likely to receive care).
The Government intend to deal with this sucess rate by changing the system:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...unals-disabled