LIBRA1's PIP Queries Topic !!!

Just wanting clarification.

I have seen on this forum advice to say that when applying for PIP whilst in receipt of DLA, that whatever the decision (either refusal or granting of PIP), your DLA ends 4 weeks from the date of the DWP decision.

However, elsewhere, I have seen information to say that if refused, DLA continues to be paid for 4 weeks after your next DLA payday after the DWP decision.

This link explains this under the heading 'If I decide not to claim PIP or I am not awarded, my DLA payments will stop immediately':

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/upl.../pip-myth-buster.pdf

So, for example, if my next DLA payment is due 10th February 2016 and a decision letter refusing me PIP is dated 8th February 2016 from the DWP, DLA continues to be paid for 4 weeks after 10th February, not 8th February.

Is that right?

Thank you.

Thanks Gordon.

That link is updated to June 2015 and my reading of it is you get your DLA from your next payday for 4 weeks. It is a government link too. So I am confused.

But, you say your experience is it ends 4 weeks after the date of a decision letter from the DWP. That contradicts government advice/information which is not that old.

Maybe it ought to be the subject of an FOI request. Very odd.

libra1 wrote: Thanks Gordon.

That link is updated to June 2015 and my reading of it is you get your DLA from your next payday for 4 weeks. It is a government link too. So I am confused.

But, you say your experience is it ends 4 weeks after the date of a decision letter from the DWP. That contradicts government advice/information which is not that old.

Maybe it ought to be the subject of an FOI request. Very odd.

Hi l1,

Maybe an FOI request would be in order :

www.whatdotheyknow.com/

If you do make one, please let us know when you receive a response !

bro58

Hello bro58,

It's not my lack of comprehension, is it? The information is clear:

"If PIP is not awarded your DLA will stop being paid 28 days after the next payday following the decision on the PIP claim. The extra 28 days of payment is to allow you more time to adjust to any change in entitlement brought about by the new PIP decision."

As for an FOI request... Never done one of those before but thanks for the link. However, it may be easier just to ring up the DWP themselves and confirm it since it is in their 'PIP Myth Buster' info. online. I may try that route first.