PIP Phone Assessment (IAS)

Ok..., it was just that Gordon wrote, "Chase the DLA reports they should have told you whether they were available or not."

Hi Gordon, yes I've made it very clear that I want my DLA reports and test results used for my PIP:
1) For my PIP1 to answer their question re this, I went to the effort of typing up a long list of what I wanted used and stapled it to that relevant page. Since THEY (in their PIP1 form) asked the question of what reports etc we want used, the presumption is that I didn't need to ask explicitly for them to confirm IF they still have these (and WHICH ones) but that THEY would let me know.
2) When I wrote them my recent letter asking for a longer extension, I wrote that there was no mention in their PIP2 covering letter IF they still had my reports etc from DLA and asked them to confirm.
So it's been twice that they haven't responded with an answer. And it's a LOT of info meaning a LOT of photocopying and printing for me to do (again).
The reason I asked if this is typical of them is because I want to know if it's worth my energy and time drain writing to them again (phone calls are too difficult for me), or if based on most claimants' experience of them not answering (or not saying yes they still have them) I should just let it go, and save my energy/time for photocoping and printing them all again.

Hello Grace. I'm in the process of filling out the PIP.1021 for a change of circumstances. My husband rang them for an extension two weeks before the deadline and was promised a confirmation letter would be sent out. It wasn't. (Due back on 9/10/19) the guy had said 23/10/19. I.e. 2 weeks. My husband rang again a week later (2/10/19) to find that no record had been made. He spoke to a really nice lady (surprised!) Who called him back and confirmed that they'd managed to find the details and the extension was given to the 5/11/19. Just make sure there's a valid reason for the extension. I.e. waiting for a document wouldn't seem to be a valid reason. Mine was due to going through emdr each week which has a serious impact on me for some days afterward.

That aside, I'm pretty much finished mine and I have all the medical letters required anyways, so I'm hoping to get it in to them well before the 5/11/19.

I was really shocked they'd given a 4 week extension tbh.

Hope this helps some and good luck with the claim. Xx

Jo2468, thank you so much for writing that.

Just to give any readers of this thread hope: by letter they'd given me a 6.5 week extension. Then the day before it was due in, I had no choice but to phone them (which I avoid because my head was/is in such a bad state) to say my brain was literally unable to do anymore. The man who answered easily offered another 2 week extension but thankfully I knew better and asked him if he had the authority to grant me this extension when I had already been given a 6.5 week extension. He then transferred me to a Case Manager. That man asked me if I'd started my PIP2; I said yes and volunteered the question numbers I still had to do. He offered me a week more but I asked for 9 days because I knew my brain would be unable to do anything more of my PIP2 on some days. He agreed without quibbling. I asked for confirmation like a reference number and mentioned that I was scared that this agreed further extension wouldn't be recorded and then I'd be in trouble. He just replied that it's recorded under his name and gave that to me again. That was November and there've been no problems since so it was obviously accepted.