PIP mobility question

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Spoonie_Turtle said:

Deleted_User said:

OK I have the PIP2 form in "fill in on screen" format

Courtesy of Edinburgh city council !

Just need something to do with it !

Excellent!  Was that as a result of your e-mail to them?

Edit: d'oh, that's what I get for reading/ replying before I've actually woken up properly.

Do you perhaps mean the PIP1?

No - PIP2

It was the result of my email to the welfare officer at Advice Centre - Edinburgh city council

I am aware that I cannot actually send THAT one in - but I can fill it in ready for the actual PIP2 and copy all of the data...... A sort of "practice" if you like. 

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Spoonie_Turtle said:

Alice_Holt said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Alice_Holt said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Deleted_User said:

RobinHill said:

Deleted_User: Yup ... my sentiment entirely and it is disgraceful ... mine took nine months end to end whereas I know of other areas taking far less. Call me skeptical if you wish but they just so happen to be Conservative constituencies. Just use postcodes etc to lookup which party holds the office for that area. I add however that such sentiments were in the main not supported by members on here ... quoting for eg. that would I be happy to take the backdate if my award was cut and owe money back. That argument doesn't stack up to me.

I live in a Tory constituency too - but if I apply via "normal" methods and don't get an offer to continue on-line - I am stuck - can't speak on the phone and can't write legibly either ..

We've been through this.  You have options.  If you want to apply, you'll have to make use of one of them.  Presumably your wife can help with the actual writing (and there's a box on the form specifically asking whether you needed help with the form) and there are still textphone and Relay options if you have your textphone to plug back in.  Actually Relay UK works on a computer without a phone too.  For the PIP2 you can, as has already been pointed out, type up the answers to print off and attach to the form itself, with minimal writing required with which, presumably, your wife can help.

Yes online would be ideal, but is the principle of independence worth possibly hundreds of pounds while time is ticking away before they get it together to offer full online application?  (That's a rhetorical question, and your own answer may possibly be different from mine.)

      This thread reminds of a similar one a little while back about DLA to PIP and difficulty ordering / completing the form due to communication disabilities.

       Perhaps someone with better searching skills than I, can link to that thread. It might be of benefit to the OP.

IIRC that poster went by a name similar to Truncle.      

Off the top of my head I actually think this thread may have been more productive and got further than the one you refer to   As far as I recall, the OP of that thread didn't get as far as attempting to make contact.

      I'm not sure that the OP of this thread has actually got much further. He writes, "I am in no great hurry to get this done". 
     
     You've given the OP the relevant options to start the process and to complete a PIP2 form, but I'm unclear if a PIP1 form has yet been completed.

      Clearly the OP would be advised to carefully go through the PIP activities, descriptors, and points to ensure that his PIP form (at least) gets to the same financial award as currently.  However, as on the face of it he would likely get a mobility award from PIP (which he hasn't with DLA ?), he may be one of the claimants who would benefit from the transfer. 

      

Fair point.  This is what I was referring to:

Deleted_User said:

So is this method - "download, fill in and email back" or is it "a portal that you have to log in to and fill in on-line" ?

I have emailed   oed.customeraccessibilityteam@dwp.gov.uk to ask them

I will post back here when I find out more .....

so one step further, at least.

Still nothing from my email to DWP yet though! 

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I tried to get my PIP claim started today via a relay phonecall and was thwarted by the line being "engaged" from 9am to 3pm! 
Anyone else tried relay successfully?
I had to give up due to phone battery dying