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Tribunal correction

Hi. I won my Pip appeal on the 17/06/2020 and got the letter on the 23/06. I rang the dwp as I wasn't sure what happened next. I was told that they had sent the letter back to the judge as there was an error on the letter. The judge had stated the wrong number paragraph. Its now the 25/07 and I still haven't heard anything. Any ideas what my next step is. Thanks.
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When you ask for a correction the original appeal bundle needs to be retrieved and sent to the home address of the judge. It takes time to retrieve and post and it’s easy to forget that if your tribunal had a salaried judge they will be doing telephone hearings at least 4 days pw so when exactly do they do corrections and everything else! If they’re a fee paid judge then they get no payment for corrections but also have to do them on their own time and that time might actually be occupied by a second job for example.
There can be huge variations in this but a correction can take anything from 3 weeks to 3 months. A phone call to DWP is a waste of time as they can do nothing until they receive a corrected version. A telephone call to HMCTS is only useful to confirm receipt. Once it’s been received then it takes as long as it takes.
As for this “advice” from the DWP about 28 days and 1 week. Utter nonsense.