Talk to an adviser at your nearest Citizens Advice if you need help doing this or follow our step by step guide to making a claim. You should arrange to see your doctor or other medical specialists as soon as possible, to get the evidence you need for your application. You should send any evidence you already have, for example recent letters from the hospital that describe how your condition is at the moment.
Your mobility will be reassessed when you move to PIP. You can talk to an adviser at your nearest Citizens Advice. You should return your vehicle within 8 weeks of your DLA payments stopping - or 26 weeks if you joined Motability before You might be entitled to a one-off payment from Motability when you return your vehicle, depending on its condition and when you joined Motability.
You need to do this within 1 month of the date on your decision letter. You can find out from Motability about returning your vehicle and the payment , known as 'transitional support'. Read how to claim PIP and help to explain how your condition affects you - they help you through the next stages of the process. Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer. Top links Housing benefit. He didn't know what to do next," his daughter Kerry Jones said.
It was unfair. Mr Jones appealed the decision and was given a tribunal date of 4 August By this time, his cancer had returned and he died two days before his appeal was due to be heard. She used her father's backdated PIP payments to cover the cost of his carers and the headstone on his grave. I am angry and disappointed. Disability charity Scope said the figures are "deeply concerning" and called for an "urgent overhaul" of the assessment process. These extra costs haven't disappeared just because there is a different assessment process.
To be awarded PIP, the claimant must undergo an assessment - which can include a face-to-face appointment - to decide how someone's illness or disability impacts on the cost of their day-to-day lives. Some of the most deprived areas in Wales have been hardest hit by the cuts. Since the introduction of Universal Credit in this picture has been gradually changing, with more people claiming UC and fewer people claiming combinations of the other benefits.
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People already in receipt of DLA, aged between 16 and 64 on 8 April , will eventually have to make a new claim for PIP, even if they have been given an indefinite or lifetime award of DLA. Those aged 65 or over on 8 April will carry on getting DLA. There were a total of 3. This was an increase of 87, on the previous year. The number of people claiming DLA has fallen by , in the year to August to 2.
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