PIP Renewal Assessment

Hi, I first applied for PIP in 2014, and was awarded it after a face to face assessment at my home, until October 2020. I was written to a few months ago to tell me this has been extended until April 2021 due to coronavirus. However I have just received the renewal letter, and told I have to return it by 27th September or my award will stop. Does anyone know if they are now doing face to face assessments again, or if they are just doing paper based and telephone ones at the moment? I suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder and part of that is OCD, I have been staying away from everyone due to Covid and couldn't cope at all with a face to face assessment, I think I would end up in hysteria and would be terrified. I am trying to include as much as I can with the form, including letters from my mum and partner, a diary from myself and a letter from a health professional saying I have clinically significant symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder, anxiety and depression and am on a waiting list for therapy, although this letter is now a year old as everything got delayed due to Covid and I haven't been assessed since as I'm still on the waiting list. Does anyone know if this would normally be enough for a paper based assessment? I have also explained with the form that when I applied for it last time, the face to face assessment made me very unwell, and as a result when I applied for ESA afterwards, I was placed into the support group without an assessment as my psychiatrist provided a letter to say it would severely affect my mental health to have a face to face. Unfortunately I'm not under that psychiatrist any more, otherwise I would ask him to do the same again.

Hi, just to suport what BIS says, and let you know that even though GP did not use the exact 'magic' OPD phrase his specially done and therefore recent letter still got our daughter a paper based assessment this summer. I did pay £42 but think it good value to save so much trauma.
Best wishes, Denby