PIP award nilled

Client   had reasonable award - do DWP have to   justify   looking at existing award   or can they just   do it?

Thanks in advance

TJL - 10 August 2015 03:37 PM

Client   had reasonable award - do DWP have to   justify   looking at existing award   or can they just   do it?

Thanks in advance

do you mean, they told your client they weren’t going to pay? or that he was entitled to £0?

not sure what you mean by “nilled”

Are you talking about a supersession? That’s how I read your post. The PIP rules allow a case manager to instigate a review whenever he feels like it. He can’t, of course, make any decision he feels like; the normal rules of evidence apply.

Or is this a renewal?

Or a conversion?

Oh the suspense!

Cannot wait for tomorrows exciting episode. Who needs Corrie?? :)

Would running a book on this breach Rightsnet acceptable use policy?

my money’s on a conversion.

does Billys book count as an aid or appliance in this situation ?

( im looking for extra points)

JFSelby - 12 August 2015 04:00 PM

does Billys book count as an aid or appliance in this situation ?

( im looking for extra points)

You could up your score if it were merely basic written information. Names, stakes and odds may well reach that threshold.

Bookkeeping surely involves ‘complex budgetting decisions’ so I see potential for scoring under both descriptors 8 and 10….

Of course if Billy can’t deciide whether to open a book it’s arguable ‘annot make any budgeting decisions at all’....

My guess is a conversion. I suspect (this has been happening a lot round here) client is confused about all this talk of DLA ending and PIP coming into affect. Client doesn’t understand so rings the helpful person at DWP. Helpful person asks “has your condition changed?”. Client says, well yes I’m on diffrent tablets or some such and an automatic reassessment for PIP is generated.

I hope i’m wrong.