review of PIP

desbo2710

I received a letter from PIP this morning to say I am having a review. If the person dealing with this decides I have to go for another assessment will I have my PIP payments stopped immediately or when they get a decision from the assessment, Thanks.

poppy123456

Your payments will continue until a decision is made on your review. Is it the forms you've received today? If so then you need to make sure you treat it as a new claim as put as much relevant information as possible. I don't advise you to write just no change, even if there's been no changes.

There's huge backlogs for review decisions so you could be waiting an exceptionally long time before you hear anything.

desbo2710

Yes poppy123456 it was the forms. I have done as you said prior to your comment. My condition has actually gotten worse and my doctor and MRI scans will verify it. Thanks for your reply.

Bobroy81

desbo2710 said:

I received a letter from PIP this morning to say I am having a review. If the person dealing with this decides I have to go for another assessment will I have my PIP payments stopped immediately or when they get a decision from the assessment, Thanks.

Hi we’re you due a review, or is this out of the blue?

desbo2710

I got it out of the blue. my pip award was until march 2024 Bobroy81 

poppy123456

desbo2710 said:

I got it out of the blue. my pip award was until march 2024 Bobroy81 

It wasn't out of the blue. Due to the length of the backlogs you were due to receive your forms at anytime. Before Covid they used to be about 6 months before the award was due to end. (unless awarded by a Tribunal)

poppy123456

mandiw67 said:

 As it is a review initiated by them if your award changes you will not receive a back payment of the new award if it is at a higher rate.

Whilst that is usually correct. However, because of the delays with decisions for reviews, sometimes if the award is higher they have been owing claimants some money. It doesn't always happen but we've had quite a lot of members that have received money owed.

MadCow1

Hi,
I received a letter from PIP today , which says:

We now have all the information we need to make a decision .

I had my review on 17th April (2023).

Is this letter normal & will it still be up to 8 weeks for a decision?

poppy123456

It's a standard letter and perfectly normal. There's no timescales after this letter. It's stil up to about 12 weeks after the report was returned.

MadCow1

Thanks @poppy123456 for your reply.

ella1992

There's huge back logs in fact my support worker told me she is dealing with reivws still from last November and when I called pip they said it will most likely not be this hear my award was due to end 2023 may but got extended 2024 in covid