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letter from the courts about my pip appeal I have to send more medical evidence
lucysam5
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Hi just writing I received a letter from the courts about my pip appeal I have to send more medical evidence to the appeal court & send them in before 28th of may I all so had to go for a E S A Assessment on the fourth of March which I got so would that go for me or against I am still going to hospital for different types of ailments I have cerebral palsy & spina bifada & osteoporosis & having a bad hip a which they can't operate on because it's to risky can you give me some. Advice many thanks Catherine
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Good Morning & Welcome to our online community/family.
I am one of the Community Champion’s here at Scope.
Both “esa & pip” are different “benefits” so they don’t effect each other.
Here’s some info below for you on “pip”
https://www.scope.org.uk/advice-and-support/personal-independence-payment-pip
We have also also got some info on “esa”
https://www.scope.org.uk/advice-and-support/employment-and-support-allowance
Please please let me know if you need any help going through these???
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I only ask because if you’ve not yet been to tribunal then it’s an extraordinary step for a tribunal to ask for medical evidence ahead of the hearing. There may be a problem of interpretation here but the only circumstances I can think of where this might occur are
- where your case hearing started but was adjourned to obtain GP records or another specific report. This letter would then be the reminder to do so else they’ll relist.
- where you lodge an appeal but don’t provide full grounds of appeal so HMCTS admin. write to ask you to provide fuller grounds else the case is “struck out for want of prosecution” i.e. they’ve no clue what your grounds of appeal are so they’ll kick it out.
@steve51 may have inadvertently confused matters slightly. Whilst PIP and ESA are (currently) separate benefits they most certainly do effect each other. An award of PIP can increase your ESA for example and the reports for each may have sufficient common ground that a report for one benefit can be used for the other. DWP have largely stopped doing this but there’s nothing to stop you doing so if appropriate. Those last two words are key though and you may want to get face to face advice as many reports which look positive to claimants may contain information or phrases detrimental to your claim.
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