Should I be concerned!

badger6537

hi all

Like many I have just gone through a pip review and my experience was weird to say the least.

So my pip assessment happened in early Aug and lasted over 2 hours the assessor was talking over me a lot or inbetween telling me to take a break as I was a complete mess.

After the assessment and me thinking ok well not to bad and I could be hopeful I got a text message literally 26 mins after the assessment saying that DWP had my report !!! As you can imagine my head was a shed and immediately called them to see if this was a mistake how could she do the report that quick ! Turns out it was all done and I requested a copy as clearly I expected bad things or as many would say lots of zeros finally got the report and to my amazement if DWP agree with the report things would improve as I scored 14 on daily living and 14 on mobility something I didn’t get last time so I started to breath easier only to get a weird out of the blue letter ! 3 weeks after they got the report saying they now had all the info to make a decision and to wait.

So should I be concerned if they had the report and medical evidence early in Aug and text message was your hear in 6-8 weeks then I get a random letter dated 3 weeks after the report saying they had all the info needed and to expect a decision in 8/10 weeks I mean why so long that would be 11-14 weeks from report they had ?
also is it possible for a DWP decision maker not to score points as assessor did ie lower them ? Hence they went for further info from somewhere as the 3 weeks inbetween report seems weird and has put me in a downward spiral so any help gratefully recieved and sorry for the long winded rambling message

Nashota

I had a weird experience myself in 2019 with a review, the HCP lowered my points from 20 and 18 to just 8 and 8, the DM then disputed the report and a GPFR was request but because Capita requested it from the wrong medical centre which I found out by accident when I complained and they admitted to their mistakes, it took them over 2 months to rectify the issue but by that time my award was running out and so the DM went along with the report, MR failed, but it was overturned at appeal stage by the DWP, so no tribunal was needed, obviously they had the GPFR and bothered to look at the info on it.

Maybe the DM has disputed the report and the assessment company have had to request a GPFR, I don't know. The DWP can put your points up or down, they don't always agree with the HCP's report.

I'm not saying the above is what's happened of course, but that's what happened to me, it took months, obviously Capita's mess up didn't help.

Trevor_PIP

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/138139/should-i-be-concerned

Well done on having a good assessment. It is hard to say what is going on to be honest. Try not to over think it.