Obviously things have changed somewhat with the Covid thing, no face to face assessments now. This just seems a bit weird to me.
DH had a review back in March the week before lockdown and lost his award. The assessor was an arsehole and DH finds it really difficult as he had a speech impediment. We did briefly consider appealing, but didn’t. He still has his injury/mobility issues but is on the list for surgery. Whatever.
Fast forward to this week and a telephone review appt came through unexpectedly. Had the call today and it was extremely in-depth and they’d clearly requested his entire medical record prior to the call because they were asking him about other health issues that he’s not claimed for in the past(a head injury as a child that had left him with minor permanent after effects for example). She also knew he was having CBT which is a new thing since lockdown. Previous arsehole assessor had not made notes of the very strong controlled drug pain relief he is now on, or the change to his other meds to stronger ones, even though previous assessor was told in March. Woman today seemed annoyed that this had been missed off.
Does this sound like they are auditing that previous assessor? Could be ex wife flagging DH up for benefit fraud thinking he’s still claiming? She’s tried before and failed. Obviously we didn’t request this assessment today so not sure of the reason. All a bit odd.