Lost mobility component on PIP

Hi,
I was on DLA higher rate care and lower rate mobility.

I just received my DWP brown envelope and I have been awarded enhanced rate care, and lost my mobility component.

My query is about a sentence in the decision makers reasoning which says "you said in your questionnaire and at your consultation that you are able to walk more than 200 metres unaided....." I never had a consultation! I live in North Wales and assume that it was Capita, but they never came to see me and I never saw anyone, so how can they say at my consultation? No where on my evidence does it say that I can walk 200 metres most of the time unaided - assuming that aided means another person?

I don't want to appeal the decision because I can't afford them to relook and take points off my daily living component, it is too much of a risk.

The reason for this message is that my ESA entitlement is based on the descriptor about social interaction and the fact that I have agoraphobia and social phobia (as diagnosed by my psychiatrist) which means that all social contact is impossible because of these issues.

Will the PIP decision that I can 'walk 200 unaided' mean that I will lose my ESA for social contact and not being able to go out descriptors?

That is my only worry. My husband and I have discussed how financially we will have to adapt so that we can cope with the financial loss of the mobility component, but I didn't attend a consultation and will I now lose my ESA?

thank you very much for reading.

Thanks Gordon. I did score 4 points on the planning and executing a journey but obviously that wasn't enough to get the mobility rate but having read your message I think that was a fair decision.

just want to thank you and your team because without your guides I would never have got not only the enhanced rate daily living component, but wouldn't have had the decision made so quickly. My PIP deadline was on 15 Jan so a very quick decision and no visit or face to face assessment so I am thrilled. Thank you all very much!

Thanks for answering my queries but just one more which might also be of interest to others with the wording of standard letters.

DLA was due to run out in April 2015. Today I had my PIP award decision letter. I have lost my DLA mobility component. What confuses me is that in my decision letter it has two conflicting bits of information regarding timing of payments. In one paragraph it says "I've decided you are not entitled to either rate of mobility component of PIP from and including 15 December 2014" -(possibly the date I started my claim on the phone) and yet on another page of the decision letter it says that PIP payment can only start 4 weeks after the new decision has been made. The deadline for my PIP claim was 15 January so how can they stop my DLA mobility component payment from 14 December last year because it is not 4 weeks after the PIP decision was made. Really confused. Thank you.

mad cow wrote: Thanks for answering my queries but just one more which might also be of interest to others with the wording of standard letters.

DLA was due to run out in April 2015. Today I had my PIP award decision letter. I have lost my DLA mobility component. What confuses me is that in my decision letter it has two conflicting bits of information regarding timing of payments. In one paragraph it says "I've decided you are not entitled to either rate of mobility component of PIP from and including 15 December 2014" -(possibly the date I started my claim on the phone) and yet on another page of the decision letter it says that PIP payment can only start 4 weeks after the new decision has been made. The deadline for my PIP claim was 15 January so how can they stop my DLA mobility component payment from 14 December last year because it is not 4 weeks after the PIP decision was made. Really confused. Thank you.

Hi MC,

For claimants endeavouring to transfer over to PIP from DLA, the "start date" is not relevant.

In this scenario, you will continue to receive the same rate of DLA that you had when the transfer began, until 4 weeks after the date of the new PIP Decision.

If the DLA payments that you receive do not seem to comply with that rule, you should challenge this with The DWP.

Remember, DLA is normally paid four weekly in arrears on a Wednesday.

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