WELSHGRL'S PIP THREAD!

My partner received a letter today from the dwp saying " We've now the information we need about your condition and how this affects you for your claim for pip", Goes on to say sorry it's taken longer than expected to give a decision.

He's been excused a face to face assessment so that is one stress out of the way but now I am worrying about this letter. Is it common? Is there a delay because they are querying the assessors report or is it just backlog?

I have requested the PA4 over a week ago but was told it could take up to 14 days to arrive.

The whole process has been so stressful, I just want to over now

welshgrl wrote: My partner received a letter today from the dwp saying " We've now the information we need about your condition and how this affects you for your claim for pip", Goes on to say sorry it's taken longer than expected to give a decision.

He's been excused a face to face assessment so that is one stress out of the way but now I am worrying about this letter. Is it common? Is there a delay because they are querying the assessors report or is it just backlog?

I have requested the PA4 over a week ago but was told it could take up to 14 days to arrive.

The whole process has been so stressful, I just want to over now

Hi wg,

Not the norm, but we have seen more of this lately !!

The whole PIP Assessment Process has been slowing down since New Year, unsurprisingly due to the sheer volume of DLA recipients that they are trying to transfer over.

I can only see the delays getting worse, which will lead to more PIP paper based assessments !!

Exactly the same thing happened with the national roll out of IB, IS and SDA transfers to ESA.

We also saw a rise in paper based assessments with that.

This was supposed to have been completed by Spring 2014, but there are still claimant's who have yet to be transferred over to ESA !

I believe the medical report produced on a paper based assessment is a PA3 rather than a PA4 where a F2F takes place.

bro58

Thanks, Bro

There was no time scale on the letter either so we cannot even second guess when a decision will be finalised.

Hopefully, paper based assessment won't go against us!

Can anyone please tell me if you are entitled to see your PA3 Assessment report before the decision maker makes his/her final decision?

We were told just over 2 weeks ago that my partner won't need a face to face so we requested his assessment report.
Last week we had a letter from the DWP saying they had all the evidence to go ahead but sorry it was taking longer than expected.

No report has arrived so I phoned up the helpline to query and it has not even been sent out. They said that we cannot see it until the DM has made their decisions!

Is this right? I thought we had a right to see it within 28 days?

Thanks

Thanks, Gordon. It makes sense, I've read some have had theirs and others not. Wasn't sure if there were any rules regarding it.

Thanks for your help.