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Pip Severe Disability Premiums

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I would like help/advice on behalf of a 68 year old gentleman who I know. He lives on his own and is very vulnerable and isolated and has very poor health as well as severe anxiety and social phobia. He recently received a pip standard rate award in both components when he received a letter from the DWP to transfer from DLA to PIP.
I am not sure whether he is entitled to the severe disability premiums of PIP as he is on a state pension. He was on Pension Credit before but that stopped in 2016 and he is now on state pension benefit, and also receives housing benefit and a reduced Council Tax but he stills pays for his Council Tax just like all of us.
Also I'm not sure whether the disability premiums he was receiving when he was on Incapacity Benefit have been added to his state pension or not, as this gentleman does not have any clue what his entitlements are and is totally isolated, seldom goes out, and does not have anyone to advice him of his benefit entitlements?
I would be very grateful to know whether he is entitled to the severe disability premiums of PIP as he has got a state pension and also if anyone would know whether his disability premiums would have been added to his state pension when he stopped receiving Pension Credit in 2016. His savings are less than £2000. So if @Mary or her colleagues at the benefits training company or anyone else in this community can help to answer these questions, I would be very grateful.
Many thanks for your time and hope that you all have a very pleasant day.
I am not sure whether he is entitled to the severe disability premiums of PIP as he is on a state pension. He was on Pension Credit before but that stopped in 2016 and he is now on state pension benefit, and also receives housing benefit and a reduced Council Tax but he stills pays for his Council Tax just like all of us.
Also I'm not sure whether the disability premiums he was receiving when he was on Incapacity Benefit have been added to his state pension or not, as this gentleman does not have any clue what his entitlements are and is totally isolated, seldom goes out, and does not have anyone to advice him of his benefit entitlements?
I would be very grateful to know whether he is entitled to the severe disability premiums of PIP as he has got a state pension and also if anyone would know whether his disability premiums would have been added to his state pension when he stopped receiving Pension Credit in 2016. His savings are less than £2000. So if @Mary or her colleagues at the benefits training company or anyone else in this community can help to answer these questions, I would be very grateful.
Many thanks for your time and hope that you all have a very pleasant day.
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What I am very impressed with is your fearlessness and determination to always put things right as you clearly hate injustice in any way, shape, or form. As I said, you are a very courageous person, and please do not give up no matter what!
Moving on to my enquiry about the severe disability premium for the gentleman I mentioned in the email, he did not attend a face to face assessment at all! He received a letter from the DWP in September 2018 to transfer from DLA to PIP. He did that and received a letter from the DWP last week, informing him that he now has an ongoing award for PIP and has been awarded the standard rate for both care & mobility.
His PIP assessment was a paper based one luckily. Obviously as he is no longer on Pension Credit and is now receiving the state pension since 2016, I doubt whether he is entitled to the severe disability premiums which are associated with personal independence payment for people who are either in the standard or enhanced rates of the care component.
It is always a good thing to ask because you never know what your entitlements are until you ask, and then someone who knows the ins and outs of the benefits system and its process, then answers the questions.
All I know is that he did receive the disability premiums that are associated with Incapacity benefit & income support when he was receiving both benefits. He no longer receives income support and IB because he receives a a state pension now. However, he did not receive the DLA severe disability premium at the time he was receiving IB and income support because he was on the lower rate care of DLA and therefore not eligible for any severe disability premium as he was not on the middle or higher rates care components of DLA
Many thanks for your advice and help and have a wonderful day @wildlife.