Do you have a recent PIP award letter?

Hello,

My assessment was carried out by ATOS, and I was awarded PIP until 22nd March 2019, but my letter states that (presumably ATOS) will contact me again after 22 March 2018 "to make sure you're receiving the right level of Personal Independence Payment". However a little further down the same page of the letter, it says: "If your award of Personal Independence Payment has an end date, you'll be sent a letter around 14 weeks before your award ends."

Confusing.

Idonia.

Steve Donnison wrote: Hi All,

I'm trying to find out if current PIP award letters tell claimants that their award will be reviewed a year before it ends. Does anyone have a copy of an award letter and, if so, does it have such a clause?

Many thanks,

Steve

Yes my wife's PIP has been awarded to April 2017 & the DWP will contact her after Sept 2016.

The PIP award letter clearly states that "I have limited the period of your award as your needs may change" & that's the reason for her being contacted 7 months before the PIP award expirey date.

ATOS.

Hello. I only just realised this but my PIP letter which I received in January 2015 was backdated to October 2014 .

I was awarded both components without having to endure a medical assessment.

The thing I am now unsure of having read this thread is that my letter does not give a fixed term but states that it is for an on-going period.

Is this unusual and what does it mean ?

Thanks

p.s. it was awarded by Capita

Hi

All the same that was recounted above happened to me last September. Three year
award but reviewed after two. Interestingly, the ATOS report only recommended a two year award.

I got a relative to write a sharply-worded letter to DWP with a series of questions requesting yes/no answers.

They came back saying I would be contacted about three months before end of three years.

Recently I rang in to re re confirm this. What happened? I will be contacted after two years!! Reason: to allow them enough time to re-assess before original award expires.

This seems vaguely plausible, but then why the misleading letter to me?

So, to all who have replied: what length of award did ATOS recommend? Is there a clue there? If my story is unusual, in that others have got a three year award from ATOS, but are being contacted after two years, then obviously questions need to be asked.

I will write when I can back to DWP as a complaint about being mislead, attaching their response above and see what happens.

Ultimately though, only an MP perhaps can sort this muddle out.

Any views?

A

breathless wrote: Hello. I only just realised this but my PIP letter which I received in January 2015 was backdated to October 2014 .

I was awarded both components without having to endure a medical assessment.

The thing I am now unsure of having read this thread is that my letter does not give a fixed term but states that it is for an on-going period.

Is this unusual and what does it mean ?

Thanks

p.s. it was awarded by Capita

Hi b,

Ongoing PIP awards do not have an "end date" they are comparable with a DLA Indefinite Award.

They are given in a minority of cases where there is no real prospect of the claimant's condition improving or changing.

As with DLA Indefinite Awards, Ongoing PIP Awards can be reviewed at any time.

However, I would not expect a review to occur for some time !

bro58