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5 years 4 months ago #242096 by alisp
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Could someone please explain to me what a "Supplementary advice note (change of advice) - PA6" is, and hazard a guess as to why one appears to have been issued (internally, at least) between the original PIP tribunal and the reconvened one (the tribunal having been postponed to direct the DWP to supply paperwork for the latest DLA and ESA applications, which it ignored)? It was included with the paperwork when we put in a GDPR request to force the DWP to comply, and is dated a couple of weeks before the reconvened tribunal took place. It appears to be a reconsideration of the original award decision, and is markedly more in our favour than the previous one - or, for that matter, the ultimate tribunal decision, which issued without the tribunal seeing it.
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5 years 4 months ago #242115 by Gordon
A PA7 is completed by the assessor when the DWP either ask for more comment on the existing information or new evidence has become available, examples of comment might be where the DM has concerns about whether the claimant's limitations have properly been considered or where it appears that the existing evidence has not been fully considered.
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alisp wrote: Could someone please explain to me what a "Supplementary advice note (change of advice) - PA6" is, and hazard a guess as to why one appears to have been issued (internally, at least) between the original PIP tribunal and the reconvened one (the tribunal having been postponed to direct the DWP to supply paperwork for the latest DLA and ESA applications, which it ignored)? It was included with the paperwork when we put in a GDPR request to force the DWP to comply, and is dated a couple of weeks before the reconvened tribunal took place. It appears to be a reconsideration of the original award decision, and is markedly more in our favour than the previous one - or, for that matter, the ultimate tribunal decision, which issued without the tribunal seeing it.
A PA7 is completed by the assessor when the DWP either ask for more comment on the existing information or new evidence has become available, examples of comment might be where the DM has concerns about whether the claimant's limitations have properly been considered or where it appears that the existing evidence has not been fully considered.
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5 years 4 months ago #242153 by alisp
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Thank you, Gordon. From what you're saying, it seems unusual to have one issued between two sittings of a tribunal? I mean, that must have been at least 6 months, if not more, after the mandatory reconsideration. I can't think what new evidence might have come to light in that time - unless the tribunal's direction caused the DWP not to submit the paperwork but to have a rethink about the original decision, and/or to look at the paperwork itself and amend its original findings. Does that sound feasible?
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5 years 4 months ago #242154 by Gordon
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Yes, but it is arbitrary if the Tribunal panel has already made a Decision.
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Yes, but it is arbitrary if the Tribunal panel has already made a Decision.
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