Plain old common sense here. The Government does love to waste public money.
Having seen both sides of the coin, I can tell you now with years of experience behind me that PIP assessment are not worth the paper they are written on.
After having worked in Adult Social Care and completed thousands of Community Care Assessments under the Community Care Act for eight years, I don’t mind saying that I am an expert in carrying out home assessments, but my PIP assessment was just a joke. I could have been doing an interview for McDonalds and still got the same outcome.
It started off as normal, someone arranging a home visit, they then came around and I sat on the sofa and explained my situation, there was no physical examination, it was just me telling them my story, for all they know I could have made the whole thing up and still be assigned the higher level of PIP. In actual fact…
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