PIP backpayment question

Hi,

My mother has been on long term DLA (lower rate for both) and in January applied for PIP. In August she was awarded enhanced rate on the care part and the standard on the mobility to start end of September. She wonders if she is entitled for backpayment from January (when she claimed) up to the award date.

We think that as she is migrating from DLA to PIP she would not be entitled but if she was a new PIP claimant not on DLA she would be. It seems very unfair but I suppose if those are the rules that's that.

We were just looking for confirmation if what we believe is correct.

Thanks.

Pedropete wrote: Hi,

My mother has been on long term DLA (lower rate for both) and in January applied for PIP. In August she was awarded enhanced rate on the care part and the standard on the mobility to start end of September. She wonders if she is entitled for backpayment from January (when she claimed) up to the award date.

We think that as she is migrating from DLA to PIP she would not be entitled but if she was a new PIP claimant not on DLA she would be. It seems very unfair but I suppose if those are the rules that's that.

We were just looking for confirmation if what we believe is correct.

Thanks.

Hi Pp,

For fresh claims of PIP, any PIP award payments would be backdated to the time of the fresh claim.

For invitations/ transfers over from DLA to PIP, the existing DLA payments would be paid until 4 weeks after the date of the PIP award decision.

As you rightly surmise, this is where DLA recipients transferring over to PIP lose out, as any PIP award that is greater than the existing DLA award is not backdated to the start of the transfer/invitation.

bro58

When you say invitations/transfers over, what exactly does that mean?

My mother wasn't invited or forced to transfer over to PIP, it was on the recommendation of her doctor that she applied for it. It was off her own back with no correspondence for her to apply from any benefits agencies.

Would that not count as a fresh claim?

Pedropete wrote: When you say invitations/transfers over, what exactly does that mean?

My mother wasn't invited or forced to transfer over to PIP, it was on the recommendation of her doctor that she applied for it. It was off her own back with no correspondence for her to apply from any benefits agencies.

Would that not count as a fresh claim?

Hi Pp,

Unfortunately not !!

If your mother was already in receipt of DLA, and made a claim for PIP as their was a deterioration or change in her medical conditions the same would apply as with a transfer/invitation.

You must be in a "live" PIP area, otherwise any report of a Change of Circumstances would have been reviewed and dealt with under DLA criteria, not PIP.

bro58

OK. Thanks for clarifying the situation.

Hi Pp,

Here is the "live" PIP Postcode Map for areas where DLA recipients who report a Change of Circumstances will be reassessed/reviewed under PIP criteria, not DLA :

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/upl...pip-postcode-map.pdf

From :

www.gov.uk/government/publications/pip-postcode-map-uk

bro58