My pip runs till to the end of November this year but i am waiting for a home visit, they say they are doing this now to save time in November. They sent me a appointment 12 miles away in a place full of factorys and wanted me to be there for 9am. I phoned them and said i needed a house visit which was met with why can you not attend a normal appointment, so i asked had they read the forms that i had sent back to which i got a no but someone has read them. So i said you get in contact with them and tell them i need a home visit, yet again you will only get a home visit if you have had one before i said yes the last one i had was a home visit. By this time i was starting to get angry i ask have you been in contact with the consultants that i am under or my GP, quite shocked they said no, so i told the lady what i have put down on your 19 page form and my 16 bits of evidence are all lies and you have not even bothered to send a letter to the people who look after me. She then told me that a boss higher up would have made that choice, they now call themselves the pip helpline but they are ATOS health care the same people who messed the esa up but they said it was i different department. She then asked what my problems were i said look at the form you have and they tell you and when you send someone out if they have no idea of my problems i will not be letting them in. The lady told me that they all had been trained by the company to deal with complex cases, i said i cannot wait for someone to come out who has been trained in diabetes and complcations, mental health, pain management, people who deal with bladder and bowel problem, ENT kidney and pancreas transplants and also fatigue. I then told her that i was seeing 12 people at the minute for these problems and was due to see another 2 for my mental health and they are going to send 1 person now i am waiting for someone to make that appointment and to come out who before they ask any questions have so far got 5 letters off some angry consultants. So we will see what happens but even today 220,000 pip have to be reviewed as they did not take into account mental health. This is why the NHS is going downhill why do they just ask the consultants for a report on your health then there would be no need to employ a company who signed people were fit for work and then had to backdate their money when the verdict got overturned, they tell you how many people they got off sickness benefit but what they did not tell was that it cost more money to take them off and would have been cheaper not to do the medicals. ATOS got £500 for saying people were fit for work and over 70% won their appeal but ATOS never had to pay their money back!!!!!
