Dla pip for women of pension age

HB58

Thanks Richie. My DLA fixed award finishes in Aug next year and I was wondering whether I will be reassessed for DLA or have to apply for PIP. From what you have posted, it looks as if it will be another round of DLA for me.

moose1982

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Thanks Richie. My DLA fixed award finishes in Aug next year and I was wondering whether I will be reassessed for DLA or have to apply for PIP. From what you have posted, it looks as if it will be another round of DLA for me.

Mine finishes in June or July next year and I believe that a certain number from each month will go through the PIP and the rest will be via DLA. The reason for only some being PIP is because they want to see how the PIP system goes first before putting everyone on it. This will run from April until October I believe.

It could be that they halt PIP because of a major flaw they didn't see, or it could just be that while the assessment centres are being finalised, they can only take on so many cases per month.

Richie-from-the-Boro

I'd need one of these and a full bucket of 'speculation ale'


to decide on the future. PIP as we know it is only one of the 11 major elements of reform. If I was speculating I would do so in a general way and say that in the past couple of years, it would have been easier for this group to make changes to their needs based benefits than it is currently, or will be in the future. Nothing is for certain, the courts not public opinion or protest or lobby groups will make changes to benefits and how they are adjusted over time. So we need to wait and see how it pans out, even the passported DLA when people become 'pensioner' status [people aged 65 or state pension age] is not guaranteed, that phrase for as long as they satisfy the entitlement conditions is now writ large in the new legislation and although reassurances not to reassess 'pensioners' have been given the legislation leaves the door open if any government wants to re-visit the issue.

My advice this summer would be the same as rogerblack and I were saying 12 to 18 months ago, get to work building a paper trail, a pre-collected set of factual evidence of care and mobility needs based this time on the revision 2 descriptors.