Pip assessment at physiotherapist

Well it has been over 6 weeks since my assessment so I bet you I will receive my decision before i receive my assessment report! Why do you think they dont want people seeing their reports before they are told their award?

I read on another forum that someone had rang the dwp for a copy of their assessment recently and were told they they now only send out a report within 10 days if the claimant was making an appeal against the decision. They were also told that if they only wished for copy for their records then they would need to write to the local benefits office (via the post handling centre in Wolverhampton) and such a request would take some time!

So it seems that the staff at the DWP don't all say the same - the two people I spoke to last week and the week before both told me there were staff shortages and backlogs and therefore I would just have to wait for my report!

Your opinion please? My DLA ends in November and it has been 6 1/2 weeks since my PIP assessment (and still no sign of a copy of my assessment report which I asked for almost 3 weeks ago - which may be irrelevant) , however, I was wondering do you think the DWP wait until nearer an applicants DLA is about to end before giving them their award if the reward for PIP entitled them to more money than they were receiving on DLA?? Wouldn't it make sense to them to do this as it would be saving them money in the long run as they wouldn't have to backdate the PIP???

I am as certain as I can be that the delay is down to workload and inefficiency rather than anything else!

Whenever the PIP decision is made, and whatever the decision is, the DLA will remain in payment for a further month before the PIP decision is enacted. There is no backpayment of PIP when it is a transfer from an active DLA claim.

Thank you Mrs Hurtyback

Thank you for your advice Gordon, I phoned again today and asked for a copy of the assessment, spoke to a nice helpful guy who said if I hold on the line he will print it out straight away so that he wouldn't forget, which I think he did, he also mentioned that it was 28 pages long - one of the biggest he had printed, said it would be in the post today and I should get it by the weekend. Your advice is invaluable to people like me so again thank you,