Rejected petition Change the way PIP is assessed

Stop the use of under qualified assessors. An assessor should have clinical knowledge and experience in line with claimant. E.g. if a claimant has MS the assessor needs to have specific knowledge and experience such as MS nurse or neurologist. Final outcome is based more on f2f than clinical reports

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To many people are being refused pip or having their claims stopped due to poorly conducted f2f assessments. If an assessor has no clinical knowledge on a claimants condition they are not qualified to make an assessment on how this impacts their ability to conduct tasks, such as walking, washing and socialising on a longer term basis. PIP is meant to be personal INDEPENDENCE payments, current way of assessing is removing INDEPENDENCE for hundreds of disabled

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Date submitted 4 August 2020
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