Still on DLA..When will I be invited to claim PIP?

Hi folks,

I'm hoping someone might be able to advise roughly when I'm going to be asked to make a claim for PIP. I'm quite nervous! Or is it the case that I will stay on my DLA until the award expires? If there's no change in circumstances? Does ESA influence it?

The details of my current award is:
DLA (High rate care, low rate mobility) from Oct 2014 to Oct 2019.

I also claim ESA (support group).

My postcode starts with SO-

Many thanks in advance for your help

Hi Bobby and Welcome to the forum, you might want to have a look at the following FAQ which explains where everything is

Welcome to Benefits and Work

Claimants are being 'invited' to apply for PIP entirely at random so there is no way of knowing when your turn might come. I'm afraid the process is very far behind schedule.

I suggest you have a good look through our PIP guide and start thinking about what information you might want to include in support of your claim, when the time comes, and how you can obtain it.

If you have further questions please reply to this message and we will do our best to help

Thank you ever so much for your info and advice.

Sorry for the further question, but I'm a little confused as to whether it is entirely random, and the reason for this is information I've seen with regards to others I know in other areas of the country (midlands) whereby I've been told it's gone to PIP already, and also online - I saw this timetable on this website:

"From 23 February 2015
PIP reassessment areas extend to postcodes beginning: AB, BB, BD, DD, DN, EX, HX, KA, KY, LS, PH, PL, PO, PR, S, SO (my postcode!), TS and WF

If your fixed term DLA award is due to end on or after 13 July 2015 you will receive a PIP claim form rather than a DLA renewal claim form."

and then,

"By 30 September 2017
All existing DLA claimants (aged 16 to 64 on 8 April 2013) will have been invited to claim PIP."

Are you saying that the order has been abandoned now, and that the whole timetable is very delayed? I was assuming my dreaded letter would be imminent. Do you have any idea of how far behind schedule they are? Months/years? Thank you!

Again, thank you so much for this information and help!

So I'm correct now in assuming that I could receive a letter imminently, but it is entirely possible (although probably unlikely) that I might last the length of my DLA award, until Oct 2019?

I had no idea only about half of claimants had been contacted. I thought I must've been in the final few!