Pip renewal add new condition

slimjohn

Hi everyone hope your all managing the best you can.

I have a question I had my pip review done back in september, I know it takes for ever to get looked at. But since then I went for a MRI on my head due to continuous earache ENT wanted to rule something out. Then got a call out of the blue a few weeks later from a stroke consultant asking me to attend an appointment the next day.

After a few tests they said at some point I had had a mini stroke.

This might explain the extra weekness in my right arm and the brain fog and confussion has been really bad lately I've just been putting ot down to my fibromyalgia flaring up.

Anyway can i add my new issues/condition to my review or restart another claim and can I do this by post I hate talking on the phone my anxiety since finding this out is really bad

Thanks

Trevor_PIP

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/134410/pip-renewal-add-new-condition

If your review was progressed September last year I think I would start a Change in Circumstances and you can write to the DWP too. You will get another form to fill out like a new claim, so fill the form out like you have done previously, including your new diagnosis and how it affects you day to day.

SAWILL62

Write down what you would like your GP to write in a letter and then get an appointment with her/him/other. The DWP want evidence as to how your ill health is affecting you. Also, they need to know what extra expenses you have because of your conditions. If you have extra and/or increased bills/expenses. Whatever you do, keep all receipts and even take photographs of any aids that you use in your home. It took over 12 months for my review to go through, due to the backlog of claims but when my allowance date was a couple of months from the end I received a letter giving me a further 12 months payments. Having given them all the details and evidence that they had asked for and no more, I was in no fear of losing out. I think the fear and stress comes from not being certain that we have needs. When you have gathered everything before sending your claim, you will have already convinced yourself, one way or another, so even though its difficult and can cause great anxiety, its worth doing it all as thoroughly as possible. Get help from someone if you need to and then have however long it takes, stress free. Keep copies of everything you send in or have received, in the event that you are asked to have an assessment. At any assessment either face to face or by phone, add nothing extra, just what you get asked about. Don't change anything unless you have already produced evidence of changes in your situation. Hope this is helpful!