PIP MR waiting period

Johnny wrote: Having sent off my appeal submission last week, I received a letter today from HM Courts.
It explains my appeal have ben received by SSCS Birmingham.

I realise this is the first stage of a long process, but can anyone please explain what will happen next and if all submission papers I sent to HMCTS Bradford will now be processed by SSCS admin in Birmingham?

Your appeal will now be sent to the DWP for them to compile and submit their case, this will include a couple of covering letters, one explaining the relevant legislation and the other an overview of their case and all of the document used in the making of the Decision. Your PIP2 and anything attached, the assessment report and any other documents that were submitted or sourced.

The DWP have one month to produce this and send it to the Tribunal Service although it usually takes a lot less time, you will receive a full copy of this.

You will then have the opportunity to prepare and submit your case, you nominally have one month to do this but in reality you can continue to submit evidence up until about 10 days before the hearing.

Hearing wait times can be variable depending on where you are but I would expect you to wait 2-3 months for a hearing to be booked.

The panel will look at all of the papers, usually the day before the hearing, they will not make a Decision any earlier.

Gordon

Johnny wrote: Sorry, Gordon, can you confirm:

When I sent my Appeal Submission to HMCTS Bradford last week I attached a cover letter and some new evidence with submission, evidence I also sent DWP last week.

Will HMCTS Bradford pass all this info, together with my submission to SSCS admin in Birmingham, who in turn send it to DWP?

Or should I send the new evidence again to SSCS admin in Birmingham (in case HMCTS Bradford just filed it away.)

Can I repeat what I posted several days ago, you should not be in direct contact with the DWP about any matter relating to your appeal. If there are any discrepancies and that could be one single piece of paper, between what you have, the panel have and what has been sent to the DWP, then there is every likelihood that the hearing will be adjourned to another date.

If you have sent the information to the TS as an attachment to your SSCS1 then they should forward it to the DWP. You will know if this has happened or not because the TS will send you a copy to.

So the process is; you send it to the TS, they send a copy to the DWP and another to you and put a copy in the file for the panel.

Gordon