Pip - Would my 10 year award be reviewed without my input?

I hope I can clarify a few points.

Most awards were increased in length due to the Pandemic, but so were the rights of the assessment team.

Although they may have given you an extention to the original certificate end date, all have to be logged. So for Administrative purposes, like mine which was a certificate for life, something they say they don't give, yes they do, but Admin (DWP) have to have a date to revisit everyone, including me, to make sure that the rate given is correct, or that in the interum period they may ask you if any thing has changed. This is called a review, and is not sent to everyone because they have been on a benefit for a long time, (Although this might be the case. MY OPINION<) It allows you to send in further information of an improvement or deteration in condition/s, operation results given before the assessment, or changes in medication, where the balance has caused results making matters worse.

You should always report a change to the original paperwork sent in as this is two fold, it allows the assessor/decision maker a chance to rectify issues raised in the assessment process that may have down graded your assessment rate that would now give an increased rate, and it would allow people who where off work because of Mental issues like stress, or even selfharm, to show that they are ready through courses and treatments to start the journey back into work.

This in its self is a task unto its self, when you have been off for some time. (I have another post describing the journey, and believe me its not a quick fix, as some believe, as the silent and unseen illness is also a killer.) but on a posative note with the right people guiding you through, we will get their. The more we interact with the government and the assessors, including the Decision Makers the more we realise we all have a part to play in getting us back on track.

If anyone of us does not talk, then the system breaks down. Ask questions here if you don't know or have no one to talk to or discuss issues, this is how a history of Disability ailments are listed. Whether its what do I do if……. or I just had a result from an assessments and it says………. am I entitled to ………. if I have ……….. what is the process? where do I start. There are always more questions than answers, as the song goes, but if something you need to ask is bugging you, then ask.

ALL, decisions are revisited, and all decisions are reviewed, not all decisions are overturned without a change of circumstances. If you suddenly have another "episode" that keeps you doing what you would normally do, in work or at home, that is a change of circumstances, they don't just apply to working people.

Some are disabled 24/7, some are sick 24/7, some can be fixed some can't, don't mix, able bodied working age, people who are stagnent on the dole with people who would love to work, with people that can't work without adptions to the work place, (including home working) and are registered as disabled or on long term sick, and requiremore time to heal, and are being told to go back to work too early, causing further periods on the sick.