Please can you help - how to add pages to PIP form

Hello,
Please could anyone give me some advice. I have not yet received my PIP form, but am expecting it any day. I have read that the form that comes is unique to me, with a barcode on it. With the ESA form, we were able to add additional pages at the point that they were relevant, and add all additional information like Doctors/consultants letters etc at the back. Please, with the PIP form, although I have not yet seen one in reality, only the online sample one, I am assuming that it is a sealed unit. Please, how on earth will I be able to add in extra pages where they are relevant (on each question, I have needed to do additional A4 pages, and of course at the end, I would want to add doctors letters. Please, can anyone tell me how we go about doing this please? How have others managed to do it. I would be most grateful for any help in this.
Many thanks.
Tramelia

Tramelia wrote: Hello,
Please could anyone give me some advice. I have not yet received my PIP form, but am expecting it any day. I have read that the form that comes is unique to me, with a barcode on it. With the ESA form, we were able to add additional pages at the point that they were relevant, and add all additional information like Doctors/consultants letters etc at the back. Please, with the PIP form, although I have not yet seen one in reality, only the online sample one, I am assuming that it is a sealed unit. Please, how on earth will I be able to add in extra pages where they are relevant (on each question, I have needed to do additional A4 pages, and of course at the end, I would want to add doctors letters. Please, can anyone tell me how we go about doing this please? How have others managed to do it. I would be most grateful for any help in this.
Many thanks.
Tramelia

Hi T,

I gather that you have read : This Topic

You could attach all added A4 pages to the back of The PIP 2 Form.

You could use Treasury Tags, staples, or you could use hole punched clear pockets putting your numbered, headed A4 pages in these back to back to create a file with an Index to contents at the front, then your PIP 2, then your added numbered A4 pages at the back, all in a file holder.

Other members are welcome to post their own suggestions.

bro58

On my PIP2 form, in the additional info boxes I just wrote in "Please see additional information document" because it makes it easier to read that way than jumping between pages and potentially missing something.

Using Microsoft Word, I added a header and footer with reference info, then created a front page index, then went through each question I was providing info for (no need for the full question, just the number and its summary, eg "Q3 Preparing Food"), then after all the answers, I attached the additional supporting evidence from GPs, hospital consultants, carers, diaries, and whatnot.

I just stapled everything together to make it easy for them to scan everything into their system without too much hassle.

A crude mock up for the front page may look like:

*HEADER*

CLAIM: Your Name - PIP 2 Additional Information Document
REFERENCE: NI number, PIP.1003
DEADLINE: Date you have to return your application

*END HEADER*

CONTENTS

PIP2 Form Additional Info Answers - Pages 1-5

GP letters - Pages 6-9

Consultant letters - Pages 10-13

Carer report - Pages 13-16

Diaries - Pages 17-20

Prescriptions - Pages 21-22

*FOOTER*

Page 1 of 22

*END FOOTER*

The only caution I would give is that when I had my home assessment, the ATOS assessor said she had not been sent the additional information from the DWP with the PIP2, so I had to go through everything with her again, which was a challenge.

As it turned out, there were no issues and I was happy with the DWP's decision, but be aware that the assessor may not necessarily receive all of the info you provide and you should have a copy at hand you can give them.

They may not take the copy, as my assessor didn't, but you can always use that as mitigation if you have to go down the mandatory consideration/appeal routes after the initial decision has been made.

Hi gls 226

Many thanks for the time you took in sending me a reply on how best to tackle it. I am most grateful and will do what you suggested.

I take it that the form is all in one, so that one cannot add the additional pages where they would below, as in Question 3, you could put in the box to see attached sheet, and then put the typed up sheet there in the form? From what you said, it all needs to be added at the end, so they would then need to be flipping backward and forward from the question, to what you added at the back of the form?

Once again, many thanks.

tramelia