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But if they do change scc to include fluctuating conditions isn’t that an improvement? It seems like it will be actual rules rather than what we have now that’s up to the discretion of assessors. My GP said they don’t have anyone who’s currently on the light touch awards. Hopefully it be be implemented that fluctuating conditions are included 🤞

oh thank you I hadn’t thought of this! I will do this, thank you

Maybe I worded it wrong in regards to transition ....

As I understood it ....

Im on CBESA and LCWRA but no pip ....

I thought that we would be reasessed under the present WCA anytime up until it's abolishment in April 2028

( they start again fully in April 2026 , so I'm expecting one before April 2028 )

If I pass , which I hopefully will I will stay on cbesa and lcwra for the next two years ....

This will take me past April 2028 when the WCA is abolished and also everything that goes will it , Inc , ESA , lcwra , lcw etc

So yes our award won't end without another reassessment just because of the abolishment of everything , so our journel could well change from lcwra to health element automatically as thats what it would have changed to by then

From April 2028 I've read that it will be new claims that will be getting assessed with the new pip criteria first ( minus the 4 point rule thank god 🙏 until the Timms review we won't know exactly what the criteria will be )

And then existing claims after , this could start earliest, back end of 2029 .....

Then we get assessed with the new pip criteria

There are still hefty backlogs for the WCA , so if they start April 2026 you could still very easily be waiting a while for one .... I'm 6 years since having one and 4 years overdue in November and I've seen alot of people that are 8 years since having one and 6 years overdue sooooo 🤷

Im hoping to get one around mid 2027 if I pass that would take me to mid 2029 before having the next reassessment under new pip criteria

@Passerby I've just thought 🤔

When they say new claims will be the first to be reassessed in April 2028 under the new criteria , would that mean us ? .... As technically we would be new claimants to the pip .... When they say existing claiment earliest 2029 would that mean existing claimants of PIP ?

even so it will take a long time to do so so you would have to be pretty unlucky to be one of the first

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So realistically people in our position may not be assessed until 2030 .... Long time to be worrying isn't it .... A new government will be in by then.... a long way to go .... No way I'm going to worry myself for the next five years .... Just concentrate on my next assessment I think 😌

Well I'm hoping for a reassessment no earlier than January 2027 hopefully I pass and get two years then that will be Jan 2029 and even without all these changes you always get a delayed reassessment of a few months so it will be chaos around that time so that will take me to mid 2029 and we go from there .....