Pip form sent to audit?? Worried

Jada24

Hello

i havr applied for change of circumstances. Had assessment on 6th December and my report hasn’t been returned to DWP. I rang capita and they said it’s in audit??
what does it mean? Are they checking my claim? I’m so anxious 😬 

how long does it take? 

Thank you 

poppy123456

It’s nothing to worry about. They are checking the assessor did their job correctly. Reports are chosen at random. 

The only annoying thing is that it delays the decision making process because it can’t be made until the report is returned.

There’s no timescales how long it can remain in the audit. Once it’s completed it will be returned. After that a decision can take up to 12 weeks. 

Jada24

Thank you guys ❤️

It’s dehumanising process. The wait is a torture 

Jada24

So is it possible I will have another assessment???!!!

poppy123456

TheManFromLondon said:

poppy123456 said:

It’s nothing to worry about. They are checking the assessor did their job correctly. Reports are chosen at random.

So when I read this "nothing to worry about", its half the truth. It is certainly not the claimant that did something wrong, but IT CAN affect them.

BUT, again, I have never heard or read this happening before.

Exactly, you’ve never heard of that happening before! Which is why I said nothing to worry about. 

In fact sometimes it can be a good thing because they may pick up on something the assessor wrote that wasn’t honest or truthful and contradictions can be found. 

I’ve had a couple of reports being sent to audit, one for PIP and the other for the work capability assessment. The PIP audit took 6 weeks but no, another assessment wasn’t needed.

The whole claims process is worrying and an anxious time for everyone going through it, myself included. 

I would not want to add to that worry needlessly. We’ve had many members here that have had reports been sent to audit and again it was nothing to worry about. 

Therefore, I will say it again, it’s nothing to worry about. Now if it was the claimant they were checking then the answer maybe completely different. 

Having said that, you are entitled to your opinion, as am I. 

Jada24 said:

So is it possible I will have another assessment???!!!

Unlikely. As I mentioned above, we’ve had many members having reports sent to audit. It’s rare another assessment is needed. 

Jada24

Thank you I will definitely keep posted x

Albus_Scope

@TheManFromLondon to be fair, there is a very low possibility it will be anything to worry about.  It's just making sure the assessors are doing their job to the correct standards.

  While not totally impossible, there's a very low chance it's anything to worry about, as I'm sure the assessors want to keep their jobs and will be doing heir best. 

poppy123456

TheManFromLondon said:

@poppy123456

I will levee this here: It can be something to worry.

You say "dont worry" but you dont establish that in any way.

If you insist this is totally impossible to go wrong, humour me with what the assessor could do wrong that doesn't affect the assessment itself. 

If that was the case (nothing the claimant to worry about), why the report just doesnt go to DWP and the audit to just take its course internally in the assessment service?

It seems we suggest here the audit is just a word and has no purpose at all.

Think of it as what you want but based my own personal experience and many other threads here, very often it's nothing to worry about. I will leave it at that now and won't respond any further.

Albus_Scope

TheManFromLondon said:

You're right we're going in circles. you speak about experience and hearsay and not approaching this logically. And yet, you cant give a single example, what an audit problem would be, that would not trigger a new assessment.

Different set of minds, I have autism, you dont (from what i read in your posts), so we cant connect.

Lets leave it at that.

I'm also autistic, but I took a logical, probability based approach.  

poppy123456

I know i said i wouldn't respond further but i have no option but to respond to this.

TheManFromLondon said:

Different set of minds, I have autism, you dont (from what i read in your posts), so we cant connect.

That's nonsense, someone having Autism doesn't mean a person who doesn't, can't connect. I live with my daughter who has Autism and i understand her better than she understands herself.

TheManFromLondon said:

 And yet, you cant give a single example, what an audit problem would be, that would not trigger a new assessment, or why they would keep the assessment from release.

Audits take place for new assessors to check they have done their job correctly and they are done at random. I can't tell you why they keep them in audit because i'm not an assessor, i don't work for them or DWP and never have. There's also very little information on the interet about the audit process.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Jada24

Hello

just an update - assessor called me today to ask some additional
questions. 

She said she needed more and report was returned to her and now is ready to be sent. 

She was dead nice and polite - let’s see fingers crossed it will now be sent do DWP

I will keep posted x 

Jada24

Got a text message from DWP that they ave received my report today . Up to 6 weeks for a decision. So audit took 10 days x

poppy123456

That 6 weeks can be anything up to 12 weeks, unfortunately.

Leon3004

Leon3004

Leon3004

My audit has been with the assessor- HAAS for four weeks and they don't seem to be doing anything with it. I have been told that the decision has already been made. In future I think I will do my own audits when it comes down to repaying money to DWP

poppy123456

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/965400#Comment_965400

A decision can't be made when the assessment report is in an audit. This is the most frustrating thing about audits, they delay the decision making process.

There's no timescales how long they will remain there. I've had personal experience with a report being in audit for 6 weeks some years ago. They will be working with that report but you wouldn't know because they wouldn't give any information on that.