Appointee question

aileen46

Hello, my name is Aileen and I am new to this forum. I hope someone might know the answer to my question regarding the appointee.
my son has a learning disability but I have never claimed any benefits for him until he turned 16. I have applied for PIP on his behalf in January and in March we had a phone assessment during which I was speaking for him the whole time and the assessor only confirmed with him his name and date of birth. I was not his appointee. A week after the assessment I received a call from DWP saying that someone will call us to arrange a visit to our home to see if my son needs appointee and if I am a suitable person to be one.
I asked how long it was going to take. They couldn’t really answer. It’s the end of April now and still no one has contacted me. I was told they can’t pay PIP until my son has appointee. So I was wondering if anyone who has any experience in this knows how long I may need to wait for the appointee appointment (approximately ).

Thank you.

mix_dage

Hi @aileen46,

I had a call fairly quickly after a suggestion by DWP that I apply, it was a visiting officer from a nearby Job centre, she was very nice and the appointment was brief, she gave me the go ahead immediately. I got the stamped approved paperwork later that week .
However it didn’t go onto all systems immediately, so I still had difficulties initially speaking on behalf of person I was appointee for.

I made copies of the paperwork and sent copies to all the relevant offices with a covering letter. It took a while to filter through to be seen, and added, but all okay now.

I would chase up getting that visiting officer after Easter with PIP, as we have more bank holidays etc in May.
good luck

aileen46

thank you so much for taking time to answer, I will definitely try to chase x