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DLA Information for Parents and Carers
This information only applies to England and Wales. Disability Living Allowance (DLA) helps with the extra costs of raising a disabled child. You can claim DLA for each disabled child under 16 who.. • has difficulty with mobility • needs more care than a non-disabled child of the same age Your child does not need a formal…
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Read me: How do I claim PIP and where can I get help filling the form in?
How do
I claim PIP? The initial claim is made by calling 0800 917
2222. You need your National Insurance Number, your bank details, and your GP
and other medical professionals’ contact details to hand. Someone can call on
your behalf, but you need to be with them when they call. A claim form is then sent out to you, and…
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Read me: What is Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and who is eligible?
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a benefit
designed to help with the extra costs resulting from disability or long-term
ill health. PIP rates range from £21.80 to £139.75 per week, depending on how
your condition affects you. To quote from the official government website, “you
must have a long-term condition or…
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Paper Assessment
Hi everyone. Hope your day is going well. I am a tad worried, well, more than a tad. I am very anxious as I received a text message to say my PIP assessment has been completed and I will get a decision in the next two weeks. I wasn't due for renewal until April. I haven't had an assessment, so I am assuming it's…
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Need some encouragement, and any other support vectors
I am in a really rough spot. Life this year has been so difficult that i have almost died due to refeeding as i was unable to feed myself, which doing so has subsequentially put me in debt (food deliveries) and an even more fragile state. In which i also got a chest infection that sent me into hospital. As i am recovering…
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About a pip form
I foned for a review form as I’ve got extra disability to add to my pip form got to send it bk by the 10th December can they reduce ur pip money until they get the form bk
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Help filling out pip form
hello everyone, I have been advised to apply for pip but I’ve had no luck getting in contact with citizens advice over the last 4 days. I panicked because I have a deadline to return the form and have paid someone to help me with my answers but they are sadly messing me around. I am autistic and this experience is already…
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PIP Assessment
A question and bit of a rant. So I had a txt from pip/DWP nearly 3 weeks ago saying that a Health professional was looking at my claim, they would contact me with an appointment if they need to, this is the same message my friend got on the exact same day but with 24 hours she was given appointment for the week after so…
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Pip Reconsideration questions
Hey all My wife is on pip, she gets enhanced daily and standard mobility, she was reassessed last week, without a assessment just based on the forms and it stayed the same. But we are wondering about appealing, she's got bipolar, schizophrenia and personality disorder, she doesn't /can't leave the house due to overwhelming…
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Mandatory reconsideration
So I phoned the DWP to do a mandatory reconsideration and ask if I could get an extension to submit the details, given that I have just come out of hospital and it is due on 2/12. The person who answered my call said, that there is no such thing as an extension and that I need to submit it within 1 month of the letter date…
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Pip
Quick question, if your pip claim takes longer to get the decision after you assessment does that mean it a bad thing and more likely you have not been awarded anything. Or does it not matter and some cases taking longer than others.
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Has anyone received a adp thats got ptsd ?
Anyone had any payment from adp for having ptsd ??
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Pip/ESA changes?
Dose anyone know if they are changing pip all news stayle esa was anythink said today
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awarded pip via tribunal 2 weekss ago still wait for payment?
hi i awarded pip via tribunal 2 weekss ago still wait for payment?
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PIP Review Any Advice Please
I don't want this to sound like sour grapes because I was grateful that I was awarded PIP albeit at the standard rate for living and mobility earlier this year. However, since sending through a mandatory appeal (bearing in mind that originally for dailing living I given scores 1's and 2's to a total of 8 and mobilty 10), I…
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Pip review
I have been waiting since last December for my review to be done they extended until April next year my mobility has gotten worse I am having extra stair rail ect fitted today I plucked up the courage to call and update only to be told it’s now with capita I have already been through the tribunal system twice can I be made…
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Pipar2 form
Has anyone had one of the shorter pip review forms if so how did you complete it did you write no change and what was the outcome and how long did it take
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Very Lengthy Telephone Re-Assessment!
PIP phone assessment today — 5.5 hours long! I took two full away from the phone breaks for around 5 minutes as well as pauses to move position etc. The assessor was INCREDIBLE. The kindest I’ve ever had. She was so patient, so kind, and just kept telling me that it didn’t matter how long it took and that she would rather…
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Navigation
How do you prove that you cannot plan a journey, for example I can't map read, I have no spacial awareness, I regularly get lost even if I follow a sat nav, people ask me what route i followed, I don't remember any road names, I have no sense of direction, have no idea which way is north, other than it is in front of me or…
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Pip review text
Hi I’m really hoping someone can help me. I receive pip for anxiety and depression and have done since 2016. I am due for review in April 2026. I received my health review forms and completed and sent them back as directed in September. Today I just received a text from the dwp saying that my pip review is complete and I…
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PIP assessment downgraded
So I was on full motabiity terminally ill 2 years ago, had a transplant and just had my assessment, I am very happy to say I have made a miraculous recovery according to the DWP medical staff and have been downgraded to standard PIP (sarcasm) Thank God I had my assessment recorded because as usual it seems the assessor has…
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Re: Pip review completed; now getting enhanced DL - any backpay due?
Hello, I posted in here a couple of years ago. In my current claim, which started in 2023, it was decided that I was entitled to enhanced mobility but not any daily living at all. I have since had the review complete text message, and have gone onto the proof of benefits on the .gov website which tells me I now get both…
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Backpayment from the DWP.... subject to more questions??? what???
Has anyone else had to answer weird questions from the DWP before it agrees to make backpayment after a tribunal? I had a tribunal judgement providing me my entitlement; though when I called the DWP, it has insisted on asking 'budget' related questions before it would agree to provide me my entitlement Thats weird to me -…
