DLA to PIP Enquiry

Hi, My son has been on DLA most of his life due to his disabilities and has recently been asked to transfer from DLA to PIP. I have completed the form with help from your guides and the form was sent in over a month ago. After not hearing anything, I contacted them to ask of the progress as my son has the possibility of a supported living placement in the next few weeks and they need to be sure of his benefits to arrange support and care. I was told by DWP that the claim has been sent to capita and asked me to call them for an update. When I called I was told Capita have decided to do a paper based assessment and if I havent heard anything in 8 weeks I should contact them again. This means my son could move into supported living, and giving the way they are cutting claims down, he could lose his benefits and lose care. I am not sure what to do know. Any advice? Are paper based assessments by capita likely to be bad?

Best wishes
Dyan

Thank you Gordon. I was just expecting to hear within 4/6 weeks as I have seen on the news the wait time was about this long as the government had cit the wait time down.

Thank you
Dyan