Received my PIP form today

[Spent2much]

Re: Received my PIP form today

just a thought, but it may be better not to mention that you are going on holiday to them at all, just in case they happily and politely ask where you are going and what you are doing and then use it to say that you are not as bad as you say if you can go on holiday - regardless of how much planning it must take for you to find somewhere suitable that is not going to be too much for you to handle.
Good luck with it

Thanks , not telling them I'm going on holiday not giving them any reason to say no . Hubby scanned the form before we sent it off and he is going to print it out and take it with us and go through it with them so they can't try to put words into my mouth .

I'm taking my back support pillow with me as i don't know what type of chair they will have for me to sit in and in any case my anxiety makes me restless and after about 20 minutes i will be wanting to get out of the room in panic , not sure how they will handle this but I can't help it i can't sit for more than 20 minutes tops .

[panther12]

Re: Received my PIP form today

I think there's a section on the forms to put down any dates when you won't be able to attend a F2F assessment. If you need someone with you it can also be the dates when they won't be able to go.

[Pixie]

Re: Received my PIP form today

I agree. Definitely don't tell them that you're going on holiday.

I'm off to visit a friend who lives abroad.

[Susie]

Re: Received my PIP form today

just a thought, but it may be better not to mention that you are going on holiday to them at all, just in case they happily and politely ask where you are going and what you are doing and then use it to say that you are not as bad as you say if you can go on holiday - regardless of how much planning it must take for you to find somewhere suitable that is not going to be too much for you to handle.
Good luck with it

I don't want to cancel as we go on holiday on 3rd May and if i cancel they may reschedule while we're away and i want to get it over and done with .
I can go on holiday knowing the assessment has been done and really relax with my mind at rest x

Where are you going ?

[Spent2much]

Re: Received my PIP form today

I'm not sure if you can but I'd phone them and say that you'd asked for a home appointment as you suffer from agoraphobia. Good luck with the assessment (I'll be away at the time)

I don't want to cancel as we go on holiday on 3rd May and if i cancel they may reschedule while we're away and i want to get it over and done with .
I can go on holiday knowing the assessment has been done and really relax with my mind at rest x

Where are you going ?

[Pixie]

Re: Received my PIP form today

I'm not sure if you can but I'd phone them and say that you'd asked for a home appointment as you suffer from agoraphobia. Good luck with the assessment (I'll be away at the time)

[Spent2much]

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I have got my assessment appointment for Tuesday 12 April , i did request a home visit but i will go to this with my husband .

[Spent2much]

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Was your dad previously receiving disability benefit before moving to PIP as I think it's only backdated if you're making a fresh claim.

no but he got some other benefit for my mum being his carer .

[panther12]

Re: Received my PIP form today

Yes I think it's classed as a reassessment of the disability so you carry on receiving what you previously got until a decision has been made and any change will start from the date they make the decision.

I remember the time I had all my DLA taken away at tribunal by the most hostile tribunal judge and the worst experience of my life. I was previously on DLA low rate mobility & middle rate care. After a renewal they reduced my care to low rate so I appealed. It took a year to get to tribunal and the decision was that I was not entitled to any award of DLA from the date that I first appealed, a year before. A disability advisor said that the dwp could ask for the money back that they had paid me during the year it took to reach tribunal but luckily they didn't and guess they were just happy to draw a line under it and get another statistic off the books.

[oscar]

Re: Received my PIP form today

Was your dad previously receiving disability benefit before moving to PIP as I think it's only backdated if you're making a fresh claim.

That's correct.

I you get DLA then you continue to get that until the PIP decision I made, but its not backdated if a higher amount

[panther12]

Re: Received my PIP form today

Was your dad previously receiving disability benefit before moving to PIP as I think it's only backdated if you're making a fresh claim.

[Spent2much]

Re: Received my PIP form today

It's back dated to the date of claim.

thank you, i asked because i was talking to mum yesterday and my dad was awarded PIP last year , but they didn't back date it and she wouldn't appeal it she's 83 and just didn't have the will after waiting so long .

[JLC]

Re: Received my PIP form today

It's back dated to the date of claim.

[Spent2much]

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Does anyone know if PIP is backdated ?
I haven't heard anything as yet it says 16 weeks on the message when you call .

[Spent2much]

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That's good S2M. I hope it all works out for you x

thank you pixie xx

sent both letters today via the job center and the letter from my therapist said i am receiving 8 weeks of CBT and we may need further in put from the step 3 IAPT team if 8 sessions is not enough

It says S2M is suffering with chronic and long standing symptoms of anxiety and depression.

really hope i get some financial help as i haven't ever applied for any help during my life and feel it will make life easier and take some financial burden off me and hubby .