PIP tribunal wait time

kellylouise

Good morning!
looking for some advise!
I have been waiting now for a tribunal hearing as P.I.P reduced my payments in April 2017 and I ended up waiting for a court date
I have now been waiting 36 weeks and was told on the phone today that the average waiting time has gone up to 54 weeks!
everytime I get nearer to a date this happens
any advice please????
kelly

steve51

Hi @kellylouise

Good morning & welcome to our community.

I’m very very sorry to hear about your current problems.

Belive me your not on your own with things.

We have got some info here on our site I will post the link below for you.

https://search.scope.org.uk/s/redirect?collection=scope-meta&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scope.org.uk%2Fsupport%2Fdisabled-people%2Fbenefits%2Fpip&index_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scope.org.uk%2Fsupport%2Fdisabled-people%2Fbenefits%2Fpip&auth=OdCmUepX8Eu01lD6Q10Fhg&profile=_default&rank=1&query=Pip

There are many many members on here who be more than happy in helping you!!!!!

Please please let me know if I can help you further ?????

thespiceman

Hello @kellylouise   Pleased to meet you welcome.

Thank you for talking about your tribunal and court date.  I do not know what I can suggest. Understand the frustrations and annoyance.

Wonder if it is possible to contact your MP to speak to him or her.  About this they often want to know.

I agree with you a long time to wait.

I wanted to welcome you and hope we can be of any help. I know some one from our community team will advise or a member of our community.

Have a look at PIP advice see if that helps.

Ask the community anything hopefully we can help. Some one will know.

Please take care

@thespiceman

Pippa_Alumni

Hi @kellylouise, and welcome to the community!

Thanks for sharing this with us. Unfortunately this is a fairly common experience and I'm sure many of our community members will be able to empathise with your frustrations. One thing you can do is contact the DWP and ask for a short notice hearing. @BenefitsTrainingCo provided some information on this which you can see in this discussion:

If you haven't already you can ask for a short notice hearing, this means you may be slotted in where they have a cancellation without the standard 14 day notice.