DLA to PIP

Hi can anyone tell me if it is better to just go ahead and fill the forms in yourself or is there a better success rate if you get help filling in the forms from citizens advice bureau. So stressed about this feel like I can fill them in but scared I use the wrong choice of words .

Thank you Gordon and I think your right I am going to tackle the forms ourselves. The claim is actually for my husband he has been on DLA for 20 years but due to his condition worsening and the fact he now has additional medical problems I contacted DLA to inform them of the change and was told he would now have to claim PIP. We have gone through various forms for DLA and ESA in the past and have always been successful and have done the filling in of the forms ourselves each time getting a life award or more recently an indefinite award but now of course PIP has been introduced we now have to claim this instead. After reading so many stories about PIP and people losing their awards Just thought I would ask advice about filling the forms in, it is a stressful enough process without using or interrupting wrongly words on these forms. But you are deffo right best way to do it is to make sure the forms say what he wants them to say in the best truthful way we can. so here goes ... let the process start and the form filling begin.

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