PIP

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Hi. New to the forum and PIP and am hoping some of the forum members can help me understand the claim process a little better, I applied for PIP in early December 2022. DWP told me that Capita had received my forms on December 9th. But i have not had a phone assessment scheduled yet. So i called Capita just to make sure everything was fine with my claim. They told me this morning that my claim "is in initial review" and that they "are requesting info from my medical contacts so they can do a Paper assessment". Is this a good/bad sign that my claim will be successful?

@TheShellBeach thanku :) hope u heat soon and I’m always here if u need advice or need to talk xx

@Sara0 Im so pleased for you 😊
Do you no how many points assessor scored you?.

@mammaov3 all I know is I got the enhanced rate for living and standard for mobility ..

Sara, after all you're been through I'm especially glad they awarded you. X
I'm just as keen to find out what Mamma got. It's been a long hard road.

And Shebaduke has also been messed around and is very much in my thoughts.

that matches the assessor report, so the DM must have agreed.

The assessor scored me 15 daily living 18 mobility weather DM will agree i don't know.

Oh fingers crossed for you. Even if they were to drop a couple of points here and there you will probably get enhanced rate for both.

@lsanny Thank you i am currently on standard witch i am grateful for and i will be happy if they just keep me on that although since i was awarded standard in 2018 my health has deteriorated dramatically with a number of new health conditions witch needs me to need alot more care of people witch makes sense why i got more points from the assessor this time.

@Sara0 pleased to see this, hope it’s the award you were expecting x

Oh thats fab sara0 i told you you would be thats happy easter news🙂

Thankyou shellbeach
I had a call from capita complsints this am and they went through it all again and she said it will ho to her manager and i will get a reply by phone or in writing

Got my letter today so I got 9 points for daily living and 10 for mobility so standard for both which I'm happy with. Review in 5 years.

Thanku all.. I am happy with my decision.. and it’s the same as the report.. @mammaov3 urs should be going up Hopefully.. it’s been a long 16 weeks and finally got there in the end and it wouldn’t all be possible without all the positive advice and words u all given me xxx

That's really good Mrs. F.
Now someone can claim Carers Allowance for you.

What, in a hundred years?

Carer's allowance? Really?

Yes, now you're getting Standard Rate of Daily Living PIP.
Apply online.

If someone is providing 35 hours of care to you per week and they do not earn over £139 a week.

It needs to be the person caring for you that claims, not you and depending what other benefits you claim you need to be careful that someone claiming carers allowance for you does not affect your benefits.

Well its going to be a long bank holiday weekend.
I dout anyone will get txts before Tuesday now 😔

DWP work at the weekend. You can ring them.

They've rung me on a Sunday before.

Thats good then i didn't know they would send anything out during bank holiday.

Tried ringing this morning they are closed for holidays.