Hi, my name is aliwalker! I need some advice on removing an appointee

aliwalker

Hi I need some advice for my daughters partner regarding pip and removing appointee its a long story she is transgender is almost 20 and has no contact with her parents but they are still receiving pip for her she has never received any money from her parents as there is no contact in fact she has never received any of the pip money DWP have not been any help any advice on how to remove them 

poppy123456

DWP should investigate when a claimant reports their appointee is not acting in their best interests... IE not giving the claimant their money and keeping it for their self. If you have evidence of this then even better. https://www.moneycarer.org.uk/faqs/appointeeship/can-an-appointeeship-be-cancelled.html

Tori_Scope

Welcome to the community @aliwalker  

That sounds like a really difficult situation! Have you/they read the link above? I hope it's helpful. 

Hugme2023

Hi all
I have a question on pip 
Can you put in a new claim to run alongside your ongoing tribunal claim?? Appreciate ur replies

poppy123456

Hugme2023 said:

Hi all
I have a question on pip 
Can you put in a new claim to run alongside your ongoing tribunal claim?? Appreciate ur replies

It depends whether you already have an award or not. If you don't then yes you can but it's not the best thing to do. By doing this you're creating what's known as a "closed period" this means that if the Tribunal award you then you'll only be owed money up until the day before you started your new claim.

Any new decision that's made on a new claim will overrule the Tribunal decision. If DWP refuse you again then the whole process starts all over again.

Hugme2023

Thank you for replying Poppy we have been fighting pip for 2 an half years ... it was just transferring from dla cos of his age.. had a tribunal in Feb this year no award there was an error of law so had another tribunal in July awarded him 7 points previous tribunal was 2
 ....I feel purposely awarded 1 point under to avoid them having to back. So again asked for statement of reasons have waited 35 days fir it and its just basically a he said she said manuscript of the hearing its beyond a joke now.   I was told by welfare rights that u can out in a new claim which wud just put an end date for 2 an half years .... but I feel if u put a new claim in that they just forget above the previous one 

Will have to ask for upper tribunal but hear dwp can refuse so stressed trying to get son help from them

Hugme2023

aliwalker said:

Hi I need some advice for my daughters partner regarding pip and removing appointee its a long story she is transgender is almost 20 and has no contact with her parents but they are still receiving pip for her she has never received any money from her parents as there is no contact in fact she has never received any of the pip money DWP have not been any help any advice on how to remove them 

Hi Ali he has to ring the dwp himself and tell them he wants the existing appointee removed the dwp are the only ones who can remove the appointee for him ... Ring pip themselves 

chiarieds

Hugme2023 said:

.. had a tribunal in Feb this year no award there was an error of law so had another tribunal in July awarded him 7 points previous tribunal was 2
 ....I feel purposely awarded 1 point under to avoid them having to back. So again asked for statement of reasons have waited 35 days fir it and its just basically a he said she said manuscript of the hearing its beyond a joke now.   I was told by welfare rights that u can out in a new claim which wud just put an end date for 2 an half years .... but I feel if u put a new claim in that they just forget above the previous one 

Will have to ask for upper tribunal but hear dwp can refuse so stressed trying to get son help from them

Hi @Hugme2023 - if I'm understanding this correctly, you say there was an error in law found with the Feb tribunal, so in July this went to an Upper tribunal.

I'm so sorry an award hasn't been made, & it's all taken so long.... If you are being helped by Welfare Rights, then I don't see what more you can do following an Upper Tribunal, & would be guided by what they've advised (to put in a new claim however incredibly frustrating this must be).

Hugme2023

Hi Aliwalker. 
So with error of law meant they dismissed the 1st tribunal and redone it so next step is upper but I really don't no how much  more I can take so so stressful 

chiarieds

Thank you for explaining further. Is Welfare Rights helping you with looking at appealing to an Upper tribunal? I can imagine it all taking such a very long time is exhausting, to say nothing of the stress.

Hugme2023

The help by giving advice not representing though as he said was too late as we had put into appeal before spoke to them