Capita no assesment needed

chris8484

Good afternoon all

I had a mini stroke last year diagnosed with epilepsy and also have a none cancerous tumour on my brain . I have been awarded LWRWA or whatever it's called for my UC. I also applied for PIP in sept.

My question is yesterday I was told by capita who do the assessments for PIP that a face to face or phone assessment won't be needed as they have enough info off my hospital recoreds. Can I assume the decision should be pretty soon in this case ?.

II apolgoose if my grammar isn't the best I now struggle with my reading writing and talking due to the stroke

Any guildnece on this would be fantastic.

Kind regards

OverlyAnxious

Hi,

The assessor will have made their recommendation now.

The next step in the process is a Decision Maker checking the paperwork to see whether they agree with that recommendation. (They usually do). It could still take a few weeks for the Decision Maker to get to your case, depending on how many others they have to look through first.

chris8484

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1094944#Comment_1094944

Thankyou for the reply .

chris8484

Mary_Scope

Hi @chris8484 and a warm welcome to the community from me!

I can see that OverlyAnxious has already answered your question and provided some good information so I won't add anything else today but it's lovely to have you here and I hope you enjoy your time on the community😊

chris8484

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1094974#Comment_1094974

JustJust a quick update my Neuro specialist at the QMC has just contacted me to say she's received a form to fill out from capita so I'm assuming it's going to take a lot longer than a couple of weeks now ?

michael57

You may find it a lot quicker than most when I had my strokes from start to finish it took 2 months as long as the doctor don't drag there heels good luck

chris8484

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1095008#Comment_1095008

My specialist said she will fill it out and get it sent back tomorrow for me . I applied on the 17thsept so it's been nearly 4 months already . Hoping for a decision in the next month or so . My Lwcwra took 2 months with no assessment aswel.