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Hi all,
In April I was sent the forms to be reassessed for PIP which I returned immediately with up to date medical evidence (dated in April).
Yesterday I received a call from Capita asking me to provide new medical evidence as this was now ‘outdated’ and they would require new medical evidence to proceed with my claim. However, if they had acted on the evidence when it was sent to them or even within the time frame they are meant to process claims, this would be up to date evidence. I also advised them that nothing has changed since the evidence was provided to them but they are still requested new evidence.
From undertaking previous assessments, I was also under the impression that past evidence and such was taken into account so I’m not entirely sure why this evidence could be regarded as out of date.
If anyone else has had this or can offer me any advice, it will be greatly appreciated.
In April I was sent the forms to be reassessed for PIP which I returned immediately with up to date medical evidence (dated in April).
Yesterday I received a call from Capita asking me to provide new medical evidence as this was now ‘outdated’ and they would require new medical evidence to proceed with my claim. However, if they had acted on the evidence when it was sent to them or even within the time frame they are meant to process claims, this would be up to date evidence. I also advised them that nothing has changed since the evidence was provided to them but they are still requested new evidence.
From undertaking previous assessments, I was also under the impression that past evidence and such was taken into account so I’m not entirely sure why this evidence could be regarded as out of date.
If anyone else has had this or can offer me any advice, it will be greatly appreciated.
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Username_removed said:Very much depends on the medical conditions. Very unlikely to make this sort of request for long term conditions. Much more likely for short term ones.
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Username_removed said:Very much depends on the medical conditions. Very unlikely to make this sort of request for long term conditions. Much more likely for short term ones.
As you know I originally made a claim for PTSD back in 1995 and was awarded IIDB. The last assessment I had was in 2013 where the 'DWP doctor' signed me off with an indefinite award as the psychiatric report stated that the condition will not improve with time and that recent tests have proven that the condition had been made worse by frontal lobe damage not previously reported or tested for.
(I suffered a head injury in an assault along with being shot with two 9mm bullets in the stomach. I was airlifted and the bullet wounds and damage were repaired with surgery - the head injury was stitched but along the way I never had a head CT scan)
Yet the PIP assessor with the DWP agreeing that despite them having a copy of the psychiatric report and a copy of the DWP doctor's opinion they still said that I did not have any mental health difficulties as proven by 14 one line cut and paste comments.
No wonder the NHS is in the state it is in with Mental Health services making up diagnosis's and letting me suffer for 18 years with brain damage that nobody spotted.
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