Pip review back payment

tashac1982

Hi I'm just wondering do pip review get backdated?

bg844

In normal times no. Due to the length of time PIP reviews are taking at present some Decision Makers will backdate, but not confirmed.

WelshBlue

I went from Standard DL to Enhanced on review and mine was backdated 8 months

As @bg844 says ... my DM did as have others and from what I've seen here, some don't.  Seems like a lottery as to the DM

apple85

bumping an old thread so I don’t have to start a new one:

so at the start of the week finally got my pip award letter and 100% clarified & got in writing that the mystery chunk of money paid in my account a few weeks back was in fact backpay (which I was not expecting at all)

problem is it does put me over the £6k first limit by a decent amount.

I know that an award back payment is disregarded for the 1st 12 months (and when I’ve minus the £x backpay from what’s in my savings I’ve remained under the £6k limit)

we’ve tried calling the dwp esa line over the past couple of days to inform them but they seem to be having one of their ‘on hold for an hr+, then the line cuts out’ glitches


i guess my question is exactly how mandatory is it to call the dwp (and council bcos of housing) and inform them that a recent pip backpay has taken you over £6k? Are you breaking the law if you don’t or is it just a curtesy thing?

(in the past I had a bad experience with the dwp when I accidentally went over the £6k limit, reported it as soon as I noticed the error, but had to sent to send in weekly bank statements for most of the next year and via the weekly repayment plan paid them back significantly more than what was owed)
- I really don’t want to trigger something like that again

would it be okay to stop trying to contact the dwp on this (or only left the council know) and just move on (obviously notify them if I’m over the £6k via backdated pip 12 months after it entered my bank) - this whole pip process has been so stressful I just want to move on but at the same time I don’t want to do something that has a high risk of biting me on the backside!

poppy123456

You don’t need to contact them because the money that was owed to you is completely disregarded for 1 year. Without that you have less than £6k which is allowed. 

apple85

You don’t need to contact them because the money that was owed to you is completely disregarded for 1 year. Without that you have less than £6k which is allowed. 

So it’s just a curtesy thing and not mandatory (I’m not breaking any laws but not notifying the dwp of a pip backpay that put me over £6k for the 1st 12 months?)

sorry about the repeating/double checking poppy…..but if I’ve understood you correctly poppy then I’d hug you if I could

this last pip renew has been so draining and I’ve just wanted to draw a line under the whole thing and it be 100% over rather than just 95% over

of course esa reassessment could rehit at any time but touch wood the dwp won’t feel the urge to type my address again for the rest of 2023, and 2024 if I’m being greedy 

poppy123456

No, you’re not breaking any such law by not ringing them. The PIP is disregarded for 1 year. Without the PIP amount you will have less than £6,000 and they are not interested in savings of less than £6,000. 

You have nothing to be sorry for, you’re just making sure you understand the rules.