PIP extension granted in pandemic, now an early form

ev8

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help.

I was awarded PIP in 2019, my award would be up for renewal around now, but during COVID I got an extension that extended the award until Feb 2024, however I just got the forms today (dated on 17th March, only arrived today)

Has this happened to anyone else who was given an extension? Thanks so much for any help.

Spoonie_Turtle

Yes, it's happened to most people with extended awards.  The extension is not to give us time but to give DWP time to get to it and make a decision before the award ends.  The backlog is massive.

calcotti

Awards were extended to give more time available to get review happened out. The cap out now is completely uncommon after your original extended targeted date but still early to possible extension. Once you return the review form that may still take such a long time for them to actually do the reassessment.

Newcad

It can be confusing but it's all about payments not stopping and works like this:

It's the award end date that was extended, the reassessment/review date didn't change.

So although your PIP payments didn't end, which would have been a disaster for millions of PIP claimants, your reassessment/review is still overdue

So in fact your review form hasn't come early, - it's come late from when you should have had it.

Once you see it that way then it makes more sense.

ev8

Newcad said:

It can be confusing but it's all about payments not stopping and works like this:

It's the award end date that was extended, the reassessment/review date didn't change.

So although your PIP payments didn't end, which would have been a disaster for millions, your reassessment/review was/is still overdue

So in fact your review form hasn't come early, - it's come late from when you should have had it.

Once you see it that way then it makes more sense.

But the review date was pushed back, so it's still come early.

Spoonie_Turtle

ev8 said:

Newcad said:

It can be confusing but it's all about payments not stopping and works like this:

It's the award end date that was extended, the reassessment/review date didn't change.

So although your PIP payments didn't end, which would have been a disaster for millions, your reassessment/review was/is still overdue

So in fact your review form hasn't come early, - it's come late from when you should have had it.

Once you see it that way then it makes more sense.

But the review date was pushed back, so it's still come early.

Review dates tend to be a year before the end of the award.  So if it did get pushed back, it's still right or even a little late for the end of the award being Feb next year.

Newcad

ev8 said:

But the review date was pushed back, so it's still come early.

No, as I said above:

Newcad said:

It's the award end date that was extended, the reassessment/review date didn't change.

The extension letters (the ones that I've seen anyway) said that the 'award' has been extended.

They said nothing about changing the review date - because that didn't change.

They had to pass new legislation to allow the PIP extensions, and that legislation was about award end dates, not about review dates.

ev8

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Yes, it's happened to most people with extended awards.  The extension is not to give us time but to give DWP time to get to it and make a decision before the award ends.  The backlog is massive.

OK, so does that mean I won't be seen to yet?

ev8

Newcad said:

ev8 said:

But the review date was pushed back, so it's still come early.

No, as I said above:

Newcad said:

It's the award end date that was extended, the reassessment/review date didn't change.

The extension letters (the ones that I've seen anyway) said that the 'award' has been extended.

They said nothing about changing the review date - because that didn't change.

They had to pass new legislation to allow the PIP extensions, and that legislation was about award end dates, review dates were not mentioned.

OK, thanks, so no matter the result I will get that award until next Feb.

ev8

Spoonie_Turtle said:

ev8 said:

Newcad said:

It can be confusing but it's all about payments not stopping and works like this:

It's the award end date that was extended, the reassessment/review date didn't change.

So although your PIP payments didn't end, which would have been a disaster for millions, your reassessment/review was/is still overdue

So in fact your review form hasn't come early, - it's come late from when you should have had it.

Once you see it that way then it makes more sense.

But the review date was pushed back, so it's still come early.

Review dates tend to be a year before the end of the award.  So if it did get pushed back, it's still right or even a little late for the end of the award being Feb next year.

Mine never has been a year before, a few months but nowhere near a year.

ev8

I don't think the forms will get there on time now, the office is closed this weekend, they were late getting here and now they're wet too because the postman got them wet in the rain.