PIP extended even with 4 years left.

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  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    No I didnt fill a form in 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,092 Championing
    That's odd @lisathomas50 - due to the backlogs many current awards have been extended, yet yours was instead done not even 6 months, but 12 months early, & without even having to send a review form off; most odd. The rest of us sorry mortals do indeed have to complete & return a PIP renewal form.
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    If your claim is marked as vulnerable  and there is no change to report the evidence that has already been submitted is used and an award is made  which has happend phone dwp and ask for yourself  before accusing  and a claim can be reviewed a year before or at any time they want to review 
  • cupcake88
    cupcake88 Posts: 1,414 Trailblazing
    No ones accusing any one of any thing it’s how it is you have to fill out a review form and it’s good that you didn’t have to Lisa but you usually have too and it’s good to treat the review as a new form and give as much info as you can . 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,092 Championing
    Thank you, Mike, as ever giving the benefit of your knowledge. I did look into the link you provided to rightsnet as I'm one of those pedantic people that read info the better to understand. So, from what you've said, & that link, I'm hoping I grasp this. It seems that someone might make a call on another person's behalf, & that in itself is sufficient to start a PIP review, & the person in question wouldn't necessarily get a PIP2 form. Then the DWP may go with info the info they had received some years prior, or just have a token assessment due to a person's 'vulnerability'.
    Trying to remain objective, as I hope you know I do, on the balance of probabilities, would it seem likely that someone would make a call on behalf of someone else, one year before their PIP award was due to end?
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing

  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Think this may be bit out of date ad it is now 6 months before in most cases and has been for a while now 
  • SOB
    SOB Online Community Member Posts: 27 Contributor
    Why do I have a bad feeling about this extension to PIP, the DWP give in one hand then take it away with the other!
    I've had the same letter as well, but just don't trust the DWP. By now all of the legacy benefits should have switched over to UE!
    What about DLA, my review is long over the due date? I can imagine that there are a lot of worried ill folk out there, trying to hang on to PIP and DLA. So Covid - 19 is a mixed blessing. I'm close to retirement so both benefits will disappear and I will be
    worse off! But I will be lucky to live that long.  
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    @SOB you can still receive PIP after retirement age.
  • BrettW
    BrettW Online Community Member Posts: 697 Empowering
    I think the last 12 months have been a massive strain on everyone @SOB - us and the DWP.

    I personally think these extentions that the DWP have put into place are a good idea because unltimately they do help protect people on these benefits. We also need to remember that even when this crisis is over that the backlog will simply not just disappear overnight and that it will still need to be worked through, whilst still dealing with new incoming claims.

    I know its hard on everyone being surrounded by all this uncertainty but at least measures haver been put into place to try and ensure everyone still receives the benefits they are entitled to until this entire situation can be resolved.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    My review was due March 2021, I received an extension in October until October 2021, then I had a review form in the post in December and now I’ve been awarded. So I wouldn’t say my area was particularly behind. 
  • Ptsd4ever
    Ptsd4ever Online Community Member Posts: 2 Listener
    I hope they haven't forgotten about me x my best friend got her extention letter 
    I didn't 
    Mine is to jan 2023 so i guess reassessment is jan 2022
    Due to my anxiety disorder 
    I have this date written and i keep worrying about it as if its a count down
    I really hope i get this letter to put my mind to ease a bit
    I even talked to my psychologist about it and she said thats my threat system taking over again... 
    Wish me luck 
  • Ptsd4ever
    Ptsd4ever Online Community Member Posts: 2 Listener
    @woodbine thank you so much for addressing my concern
    I haven't known that
    All the articles i have read said they will send forms of reassessment a year before it ends
    Thats reassuring 
    Thanks alot xx

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