DLA to PIP - my reassessment has begun

canttrusthesystem wrote: About the extra time I mentioned, as mentioned in the guide, for those with mental health conditions - please could you clarify - does that apply for the PIP 1 claim form or the PIP 2 claim form?

Thanks

ctts

Bearer wrote: I wondered if the gathering of information by the DWP in the initial phone call (that the DLA recipient has to make) had replaced any actual paper PIP1 form?

canttrusthesystem wrote: Hi Gordon,

Thanks for that.

Do they send out the PIP1 for signing? I've now received my PIP2 (ergh!) but although I've done the PIP1 on the phone, not received it for signing. Interestingly (I thought), during PIP1 the telephone interview, after I'd been asked the mental health etc. questions, including one along the lines if I'd ever had depreesion such that I'd ever been hospitalised with it - which on the specimen form I've seen doesn't have the 'hospitalised' bit - and I'd replied that I had - I later asked about a possibility of a time extension to complete the form, being so anxious about the time limit, and the woman told me repeatedly that there was no extension allowable, and that if I did not meet the deadline, my claim would be disallowed. I was a bit more persistent, and finally she said I could phne a different number and ask, but that a time extension was very unlikely to be given. I thought this was really terrible - typical, but terrible.

Cheers.