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PIP assessment
- fastmoggy
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My wife qualified for the enhanced rate of pay for a set period which is to end in the summer 0f 2016 BUT has had to fill in another pip form and has now to attended an assessment this week.
Has anyone else had this happen to them? her current situation has changed very little since the last one with supporting evidence to reaffirm this.
As you can imagine we are both very worried as to why this is happening to us.
Any help would be much appreciated given the length of time she was notified of this assessment.
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fastmoggy wrote: Hi, Just a quick question regarding the PIP assessment.
My wife qualified for the enhanced rate of pay for a set period which is to end in the summer 0f 2016 BUT has had to fill in another pip form and has now to attended an assessment this week.
Has anyone else had this happen to them? her current situation has changed very little since the last one with supporting evidence to reaffirm this.
As you can imagine we are both very worried as to why this is happening to us.
Any help would be much appreciated given the length of time she was notified of this assessment.
For reasons best know to the DWP, all fixed term awards are being re-assessed a year in advance of their ending, this is a full review of her claim, so the form needs to be completed in detail and evidence as available, supplied to support it.
Please make sure that you use the latest PIP Claim guide as there have been some updates tho the DWP guidance recently.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/help-for-claimants/pip
Gordon
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- fastmoggy
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I have read( I hope!) all the relevant information we needed before we filled the form out which took a long time as we found it very contradictory.
I have all the relevant information needed from the site as to how to continue if things don't go well but sincerely hope we don't have to go down that path for a 4th time

Again thanks and any information that might prove useful for the meeting with the HCP wwould be greatly appreciated.
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- Gordon
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fastmoggy wrote: Thanks for your reply regarding my wife's impending PIP assessment this week.
I have read( I hope!) all the relevant information we needed before we filled the form out which took a long time as we found it very contradictory.
I have all the relevant information needed from the site as to how to continue if things don't go well but sincerely hope we don't have to go down that path for a 4th time
Again thanks and any information that might prove useful for the meeting with the HCP wwould be greatly appreciated.
The assessment is covered, including the questions likely to be asked at the back of the PIP Claim guide.
Best of luck
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- fastmoggy
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being made to wait for that 'phone call' just adds to what is already a stressful situation so
I gave it 10 minutes and rang back to see if there any appointments available and was gobsmacked at how many appointments there were.
face to face appointments are more difficult to arrange so I was expecting quite a wait but we now have another one for quite soon giving me just enough time to arrange yet another unpaid day off work!
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- bro58
I have merged your topics for continuity !!
Sorry to hear that Capita have "messed you around" !!
Good luck and please update us by replying to this topic !

bro58
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