Disability living allowance - the forecast results of changes over to PIP.

rogerblack

zaksmum wrote: »

How will it work for those beyond working age if female?

I know the changes currently will only affect claimants of working age but if you are eligible for state pension you are no longer of working age. I have a friend who gets HRM DLA and will be 61 when she claims her state pension early next year - will she still be reassessed for PIP?

As I understand - yes. I'd missed this impact for females.

All existing claimants to DLA who are aged between 16 and 64 when Personal Independence Payment is introduced (8 April 2013) will be invited to claim Personal Independence Payment and will be assessed for the new benefit if they choose to claim it. This will apply to those on both fixed and indefinite
awards.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/pip-detailed-design-consultation.pdf

zaksmum

rogerblack wrote: »

As I understand - yes. I'd missed this impact for females.


http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/pip-detailed-design-consultation.pdf

Thanks Roger. Seems contradictory though don't you think?:(

Richie-from-the-Boro

DWP will begin selecting existing DLA claimants and tell them what they need to do to claim PIP. We will prioritise DLA claimants who have turned 65 after 8 April 2013, when PIP was first introduced. If an existing DLA claimant makes a claim to PIP then their DLA payments would normally continue until their PIP claim is decided. If they choose not to claim PIP then their DLA would end.

NOTE : NOT my bold see here, you should read all 15 steps on the claim road map.

I still await the actual implementation, and any adjustments they are forced to concede, I continue, as ever not to trust a word they say. On this however the bit in bold suggests rogerblack has the better advice.

SPELLKASTER

what about the fact that i have been given a indefinite award?

i have problems filling in forms etc so i hope i dont have to do all that again!!

pauliboo

'Indefinite' means for an unknown length of time, not forever. Plus you are subject to review whenever they see fit.

Everyone will eventually be reassessed.

Richie-from-the-Boro

I watched the Andrew Neil prog today with the usual CONdems bucolic take on all the lazy sods on DLA, and how it was their case that it was all the Labour party's doing, and how the year on year rise was in relentless ! This 'strivers' against 'skivers' bilge and the introduction of PIP will cut the welfare budget by 20%, that's a half million [1 out of every 4] disabled and 10,000 carers will be affected and have elements of allowances cut in the 2015/16 timeframe.

The population and even Andrew Neil and his researchers are oblivious to the 'revisionist' strategists in the CONdem dark~arts department. Are we all prepared to agree that (1) Life did not exist before the last Labour administration, and the current state of events is nothing to do with the Conservative governance ?, and (2) that the rise in DLA is nothing to do with population increases and the inarguable truth that people get older including those awarded DLA on the 'indefinite rule' invented by the then Conservative administration in 1992.

Lets have a look shall we at the truth of these claims:



- did the figure go up or down when Labour were in power ?
- did the figure go up or down when the Conservatives were in power ?
- which of the two parties created the 'welfare wilderness parking zone' in the first place ?
- which of the two parties is forcing the chronically ill and disabled into work and even URL="https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4075287"]#3[/URL death ?
- which of the two parties is for the first time in our history removing the right to legal representation ?

Lets have a look at the justice of what's being claimed



And at the indecent scurrying haste to sufficiently destroy the disabled the right to representation before PIP & UC come in







................. to be cont :
still to be cont 22nd Dec - 10:39 PM - for those that might be interested .. .. just busy - I will get back to it

JS477

One thing is [hopefully] for certain is that the figure for the number off Lib-Dem MPs will do down drastically after the 2015 election including their treacherous leader Cleggy!