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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?

Sorry I may have misunderstood your question!

If you are on low income benefits you will still get the COL £301 and you would get the £150

If not you just get the £150

@brooksidebackside thanks for that love xx @mammaov3 any luck? And @Shebaduke ?? It’s funny how wev never met but u guys are always on my mind x

Aww thankyou xx

@Sara0 No update yet from me.

@Sara0 and thank you for keeping is in your thoughts.

I actualy had a phone call again from capita this afternoon asking me about my concerns with the discrepencies and again she said tge manager would get back to me but they told me that last week so il wait and see so stressful

@Shebaduke raily thinking of you i hope you hear asap 🙏

Yes you too🤞and hi sara0

This waiting is raily stressful im currently on hold to them but i know i won't have a decision this week now 😔

Hi everyone so today ive received a letter from capita saying they are noted my concerns about inaccuracies and are doing a thourough investigation and will write to me again within 20 working days
Has anyone else contacted capita with concerns about inaccuracies and had this reply

OMG Mamma - can't they just let you know their decision?
They're hopeless!

The only thing I ever did was tell them about inaccuracies when I had my tribunal. I wrote them down and I told them about all the inaccuracies when I was having the tribunal.

I never actually wrote them a separate letter about the made-up bollocks which constituted my assessment. Maybe I should have done so, but I didn't have the mental energy to.

The whole thing is a head-fuck.

What does a full tribunal consist of x

It sounds worse than it is lol.

There's a doctor, a disabled person, and a lawyer. The lawyer is the Chairperson of the panel.

The DWP are allowed to send a representative (just to listen) but they rarely bother. The woman who had helped me fill in the forms, my welfare rights person, told me that she'd never seen a tribunal where the DWP bothered to send a representative. I think that's probably because 70% of tribunals find in the claimant's favour.

All three members of the panel are on the claimant's side. They are not from the DWP and their role is to help decide if the DWP made a mistake in their assessment.

I got a chance to explain in further detail how my disabilities affected me. The doctor asked questions, and so did the disabled person.

The lawyer asked me for some clarification on a few points. It was much easier to get through it than I'd imagined.

I was asked to wait outside with my welfare rights officer, then she was asked back in, and got their decision. She came back to the waiting room with her thumb up and a big smile on her face. Then I was asked back in and the lawyer told me that the DWP's decision to pay me nothing had been overturned, and that I had won my appeal.

It was just amazing, after eleven months, to finally get through it.

My money was backdated to the date I'd made my initial claim. My husband then claimed Carer's Allowance for me, and that was also backdated.
We got a disability premium added to our ESA, too, and that was also backdated.

It was such a bad experience - just think, if the DWP had given me an award in the first place I would not have had to go through it all.

Well it was 1 hour 37 minutes on hold and spoke to them and demanded them to put me through to case workers witch they did , i spoke to a nice man who was a case manager but not mine and he seid it could be another couple of weeks witch i got told same thing two weeks ago 🙄 and that its in a queue and all i can do is wait but he was trying to hint to me not to worry if the assessor scored me enough points to just relax then he went on to say he has never gone against a assessors recommendations witch could be bad for people who got a bad report, but i think he was trying to hint but couldn't say in words that i shouldn't worry as i have enough points to be pit on enhanced, but obviously i will still worry lol omg they need to get it over with now.

One other thing - only 9% of claimants take their cases to a tribunal.
The other 91% just believe that it would be a waste of time, or they believe that there is little chance of success.
That is not true. Statistics show that most appeals are won.
The DWP relies on unsuccessful claimants not bothering to have either a Mandatory Consideration or a tribunal.

Oh righr did you have to do MR before the tribunal x

Thankyou for all the onfo thats really helpful x

Yes.
You have to do the MR first.

Oh ok x

Oh jeez 7 weeks and still no closer to a decision 😒

Fucksake.

7 weeks since your telephone assesement ?ridiculous

Or 7 weeks since the letter to say they have recieved the report from the assesor

7 weeks since assessment and DWP received my report that same day , 3 weeks ago they told me they have everything they need and its not in a queue and should hear any day , then i rang up friday gone and they seid it is in a queue and i just have to wait again