Grannytomany yes, I contacted them myself due to my hip replacement.
I knew that the amount of benefit that I got would be greatly affected.
However, I do have lots of other issues regarding my mobility, and other things which I won’t go into here, as I’m sure you appreciate.
However, as I’ve mentioned it before on here, I will say that I’m agoraphobic and I have Generalised Anxiety Disorder (this was diagnosed thirty years ago before anxiety was a thing).
I did go into great detail on the phone.
It was well over an hour long and very thorough.
But when I received their decision not a single box was ticked (there are dozens of different statements about how your conditions affect you).
Many were definitely applicable to me and should have been ticked.
I was awarded zero points.
The letter bore no similarity to what we had discussed.
It was as if I hadn’t even had an assessment.
Hence why I mentioned the 50 metres / 200 metres discrepancy.
I’ve gone from nearly £800 a month to zero.
But it’s not just the money, it’s the injustice. It really is.
They have lied, basically.
(Just like the business at the hospital - I must stop thinking about that!)